Probability

1) An event in the probability that will never be happened is called as -

a. Unsure event
b. Sure event
c. Possible event
d. Impossible event

2) What will be the value of P(not E) if P(E) = 0.07?

a. 90
b. 007
c. 93
d. 72

3) What will be the probability of getting odd numbers if a dice is thrown?

a. 1/2
b. 2
c. 4/2
d. 5/2

4) What is the probability of getting a sum as 3 if a dice is thrown?

 a. 2/18
b. 1/18
c. 4
d. 1/36

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5) What is the probability of getting an even number when a dice is thrown?

a. 1/6
b. 1/2
c. 1/3
d. 1/4

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6) The probability of getting two tails when two coins are tossed is -

a. 1/6
b. 1/2
c. 1/3
d. 1/4

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7) What is the probability of getting the sum as a prime number if two dice are thrown?

a. 5/24
b. 5/12
 c. 5/30
d. 1/4

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8) What is the probability of getting atleast one head if three unbiased coins are tossed?

a. 7/8
b. 1/2
c. 5/8
d. 8/9

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9) What is the probability of getting 1 and 5 if a dice is thrown once?

a. 1/6
b. 1/3
c. 2/3
d. 8/9

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10) What will be the probability of losing a game if the winning probability is 0.3?

a. 0.5
b. 0.6
c. 0.7
 d. 0.8

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11) If two dice are thrown together, what is the probability of getting an even number on
one dice and an odd number on the other dice?

a. 1/4
b. 3/5
c. 3/4
d. 1/2

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12) In a box, there are 8 orange, 7 white, and 6 blue balls. If a ball is picked up
randomly, what is the probability that it is neither orange nor blue?

a. 1/3
b. 1/21
c. 2/21
d. 5/21

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13) A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability of getting a king of
a black suit?

a. 1/26
b. 1/52
 c. 3/26
d. 7/52

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14) A dice is thrown twice. What is the probability of getting two numbers whose
product is even?

a. 6/4
b. 1/2
c. 5/4
d. 3/4

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15) Suppose a number x is chosen from the numbers -2, -1, 0, 1, 2. What will be the
probability of x2 > 0?

a. 1/5
b. 2/3
c. 3/5
d. 4/5

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16) If a number is selected at random from the first 50 natural numbers, what will be the
probability that the selected number is a multiple of 3 and 4?

a. 7/50
 b. 4/25
c. 2/25
d. None of the above

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17) What is the probability of getting a prime number from the numbers started from 1
to 100?

a. 1/4
b. 1/100
c. 1/25
d. None of the above

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18) What is the probability of drawing an ace from a pack of 52 cards?

a. 4/13
b. 1/13
c. 1/52
d. None of the above

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19) In 30 balls, a batsman hits the boundaries 6 times. What will be the probability that
he did not hit the boundaries?

a. 1/5
 b. 4/5
c. 3/5
d. None of the above

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20) Which of the following probability cannot exist?

a. 2/5
b. -1.5
c. 7
d. None of the above

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21) A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability of getting a queen
card?

a. 1/26
b. 1/52
c. 3/13
d. 1/13

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22) What will be the probability of an impossible event?

a. 0
b. 1
 c. Infinity
d. None of the above

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23) Which of the following can be the probability of an event?

a. -1.3
b. 004
c. 3/8
d. 10/7

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24) If three coins are tossed simultaneously, what is the probability of getting two heads
together?

a. 3/8
b. 1/8
c. 5/8
d. None of the above

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25) The probability of winning the first prize in a lottery of a girl is 8/100. If the total of
6000 tickets are sold, then how many tickets the girl purchased?

a. 480
b. 750
 c. 280
d. None of the above

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26) There are 3 blue socks, 5 brown socks, and 4 white socks in a drawer. If two socks
are picked up randomly, what is the probability that the selected socks are of the same
color?

a. 1
b. 0
c. 19/66
d. 4/11

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27) A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability that it is a face card
(King, Queen, and Jack only)?

a. 1/26
b. 2/13
c. 1/13
d. 3/13

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28) A stock of pens consists of 144 ball pens in which 20 pens are defective, and others
are good. A girl went to the shop to purchase a pen. The shopkeeper randomly draws
one pen and gives it to her. What is the probability that a girl will buy the good pen?
 a. 5/26
b. 5/36
c. 31/36
d. None of the above

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29) The probability of randomly selecting a rotten apple is 0.18 from the heap of 900
apples. So, what is the number of rotten apples in a heap?

a. 162
b. 164
c. 136
d. 160

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30) If a number is selected at random from the first 100 natural numbers, what will be
the probability that the selected number is a perfect cube?

a. 1/25
b. 2/25
c. 3/25
d. 4/25

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31) What will be the number of events if 10 coins are tossed simultaneously?
 a. 512
b. 90
c. 1000
d. 1024

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32) If two dice are thrown simultaneously, what is the probability of getting a multiple of
2 on one dice and multiple of 3 on the other dice?

a. 5/4
b. 5/12
c. 11/36
d. 1/2

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33) Four dice are thrown simultaneously. What will be the probability that all of them
have the same face?

a. 1/6
b. 1/36
c. 1/216
d. None of the above

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34) Two people X and Y apply for a job in a company. The probability of the selection of
X is 2/5, and Y is 4/7. What is the probability that both of them get selected?

a. 1/6
b. 27/35
c. 8/35
d. 3/35

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35) Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What will be the probability of getting a sum of
7?

a. 1/6
b. 2/9
c. 5/6
d. None of the above

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36) A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability of getting a non-
face card?

a. 10/13
b. 3/13
c. 1/13
d. None of the above

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37) A school has five houses named as A, B, C, D, and E. There are 23 students in a
class in which 4 students are from house A, 8 students are from house B, 5 from C, 2
from D, and the rest from house E. Class teacher randomly selects a student to be the
class monitor. What is the probability that the selected student is not from house A, B,
and C?

a. 1/23
b. 2/23
c. 5/23
d. 6/23

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38) A dice is rolled. The probability of getting a number x where 1 ? x ? 6 is -

a. Greater than 0
b. Greater than 1
c. Between 1 and 0
d. Equal to 1

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39) If three coins are tossed simultaneously, what is the probability of getting atmost
two heads?

a. 7/8
b. 1/8
c. 5/8
 d. None of the above

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40) Which of the following statement is not true about probability?

a. The probability of an impossible event is 0.

b. Probability can be greater than 1 or less than 0.
c. Probability cannot be greater than 1.
d. None of the above

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41) If P is the probability of an event, what is the probability of its complement?

a. 1 - 1/P
b. P - 1
c. 1 - P
d. None of the above

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42) The probability of selecting a bad egg is 0.035 from the lot of 400 eggs. So, what is
the number of bad eggs in the lot?

a. 14
b. 16
c. 18
d. 20
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43) Using the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, a number having five digits is formed without any
repetition. What is the probability that the number is divisible by 4?

a. 1/5
b. 2/5
c. 5/6
d. 3/5

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44) The set of one or more than one outcomes from an experiment is called as -

a. Z-value
b. Arithmetic mean
c. Event
d. None of the above

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45) If one event occurs, another event cannot happen, i.e., the events that cannot occur
simultaneously are called as -

a. Exhaustive Events
b. Mutually exclusive events
c. Equally likely events
d. Independent events
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46) What is the probability of the random arrangement of letters in the word
"UNIVERSITY" and two I's should come together?

a. 1/7
b. 3/5
c. 1/5
d. 2/7

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47) In class, 30% of students study Hindi, 45% study Maths, and 15% study both Hindi
and Maths. If a student is randomly selected, what is the probability that he/she study
Hindi or maths?

a. 1/5
b. 3/5
c. 2/5
d. 2/7

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48) In binomial distribution, successive trials are -

a. Mutually exclusive
b. Dependent
c. Independent
 d. None of the above

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49) The formula for finding the mean of the binomial distribution is -

a. np
b. (1 - p)
c. n + p
d. None of the above

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50) How many parameters in the binomial distribution?

a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4

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