Probability

Level 1:
1. Find the probability of head when single coin is tossed?
a. ½ b. 1 c. 0 d. None
2. Find the probability of at least one head when two coins are tossed simultaneously?
a. ½ b. ¾ c. ¼ d. 1
3. 5 coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting 3 heads?
a. 5/32 b. 5/16 c. 3/32 d. 3/32
4. Find the probability of at most one head when two coins are tossed simultaneously?
a. ½ b. ¾ c. ¼ d. 1
5. Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at least 2 heads?
a. ¼ b. ½ c. 1/3 d. 1/8
6. A fair 2 sided coin is flipped six times. What is the probability that tails will be the result atleast twice but not
more than 5 times?
a. 5/8 b. ¾ c. 7/8 d. 15/16
7. Vijay tosses a fair coin eight times. What is the possibility that the con will land tails side up more than 5
times?
a. 37/256 b. 56/256 c. 65/256 d. 81/256
8. In a simultaneous throw of 2 dice what is the probability of getting a doublet?
a. 1/6 b. 1/8 c. 1/9 d. 3/7
9. In a simultaneous throw of 2 dice what is the probability of getting a total more than 7?
a. 1/12 b. 5/12 c. 3/12 d. 2/6
10. 2 dies are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting two numbers whose product is even?
a. ½ b. ¾ c. 3/8 d. 5/16
11. In a simultaneous throw of three dice what is the possibility of getting a total more than 16?
a. 1/54 b. 1/18 c. 1/36 d. 2/19
12. 3 dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the possibility of getting the sum as 11?
a. 1/8 b. 4/27 c. 3/19 d. 1/40
13. 3 dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the possibility of getting the sum as 9 or 10?
a. 13/50 b. 13/24 c. 1/16 d. 13/54
14. 3 dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the possibility of getting the sum as odd number?
a. ½ b. ¼ c. ¾ d. 5/4
15. 3 dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the possibility of getting the sum as 5 or 4?
a. 1/18 b. 1/24 c. 1/32 d. 1/16
16. David is playing a game in which a dice is rolled 5 times. If a number turns up exactly 3 times then the game
is won. Daniel has thrown the dice two times and got the number 4 both times. What is the probability
Daniel will win the game?
a. 1/216 b. 75/216 c. 80/216 d. 90/216
17. A bag contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue balls. 2 Balls are drawn at random. What is the probability that
none of the balls are drawn is blue?
a. 10/21 b. 11/21 c. 2/7 d. 5/7
18. A box contains 5 green, 4 yellow and 3 white marbles. Three marbles are drawn at random. What is the
probability that they are not of the same order?
a. 3/44 b. 3/55 c. 52/55 d. 41/44
19. A bag contains 4 white, 5 red and 6 blue balls. 3 balls are drawn at random from the bag. The probability
that all of them are red is?
a. q/22 b. 3/22 c. 2/91 d. 2/77
20. A box contains 6 white and 8 red balls. Two balls are drawn at random in succession. What is the probability
that one of them is white and the other is red?
a. 72/91 b. 24/91 c. 48/91 d. 36/91
21. An urn contains 10 black and 5 white balls. Two balls are drawn from the urn one after the other without
replacement. What is the probability that both drawn balls are black?
a. 1/7 b. 2/7 c. 7/3 d. 3/7
22. The probability that a card drawn from a pack of 52 cards will be diamond or a king?
a. 2/13 b. 4/13 c. 1/13 d. 1/52
23. From a pack of 52 cards, two cards are drawn together at random. What is the probability of both the cards
being kings?
a. 1/15 b. 25/57 c. 35/256 d. 1/221
24. Two cards are drawn from a pack of 52 cards. The probability that either both are red or kings is?
a. 7/13 b. 3/26 c. 63/221 d. 55/221
25. David, Chelsea, Andrew, Maria and Danny are playing a board game in which a card is drawn by each player.
¾ of the cards in the deck are marked with a circle and ¼ of the remaining cards are marked with a square. If
five players draw a card and return to the deck, what is the possibility that atleast four of the cards drawn
are marked with a square?
a. (1/4)^3 b. 5(1/4)^3 c. ¾(1/4)^3 d. 6(1/4)^4
26. 4 persons are selected at a random from a group of 3 men, 2 women and 4 children. The chance that exactly
two of them are children is?
a. 1/9 b. 1/5 c. 1/12 d. 10/21
27. A group of 4 students is to be formed from among 4 girls and 6 boys. What is the probability that the group
has less number of boys than the number of girls?
a. 9/42 b. 11/42 c. 5/42 d. 13/42
28. In a class there are 15 boys and 10 girls. Three students are selected at random. The probability that 1 girl
and 2 boys selected is.
a. 21/46 b. 25/117 c. 1/50 d. 3/25
29. In a class, 30% of students passed English, 20% passed French and 10% passed both. If a student is selected
at random, what is the probability that he has passed English or French?
a. 2/5 b. ¾ c. 3/5 d. 3/10
30. Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at random. What is the probability that
the ticket drawn bears a number which is multiple of 3?
a. 3/10 b. 3/20 c. 2/5 d. ½
31. In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 blanks. A lottery is drawn at random. What is the probability of
getting a price?
a. 1/10 b. 2/5 c. 2/7 d. 5/7
32. Probability of Daniel to fail is 25% and the probability that Daniel fail atleast 3 times in 4 tests will be?
a. 14/128 b. 13/256 c. 1/256 d. 3/256
33. Probability that a person A can hit a target is 0.8 and that person B can hit the target is 0.6. What is the
probability that atleast one can hit the target?
a. 0.92 b. 0.80 c. 0.72 d. 0.64
 34. Among a group of 2500 people, 35% invest in municipal bonds and 18% in oil stocks and 7% invest in both. If
1 person has to be randomly selected from 2500, what is the probability that the person selected is the one
who invests in municipal bonds and not in all stocks?
a. 0.36 b. 0.19 c. 0.28 d. 0.45
35. Raffle tickets numbered from 101 to 350 are placed in a box. What is the probability that a ticket selected in
random will have a number with hundreds digit 2?
a. 3/7 b. 2/7 c. 4/7 d. 5/7
36. 60% of a study group is women and out of that 45% are women lawyers. If one of the study members are
randomly selected then what is the probability of the selected person being a women lawyer?
a. 0.19 b. 0.36 c. 0.27 d. 0.25
The probability of A, B, C can hit a target is 1/3, ¼, 1/5. If the result of one doesn’t affect other?
37. What is the probability none hit the target?
a. 1/5 b. 2/5 c. 3/5 d. 4/5
38. Find the probability all of them hit the target?
a. 1/30 b. 1/60 c. 1/90 d. 1/45
39. Find the probability exactly one of them hit the target?
a. 13/30 b. 12/30 c. 8/30 d. 17/30
40. Find the probability that exactly two of them hit the target?
a. 3/60 b. 3/20 c. 3/10 d. 1/10
41. Vignesh, Satish, Jai can solve a problem with a probability of ¼, ½, 5/8. What is the probability of Vignesh
and Jai solving the problem and Satish not solving it?
a. 5/64 b. 5/16 c. 5/20 d. 3/20
42. If 100 coins are tossed, what is the probability that exactly 50 heads will be showing.?
43. Samuel Pepys wrote Isaac Newton to ask which of these events is more likely: that a person get (a) at least 1
six when 6 dice are rolled. (b) at least 2 sixes when 12 dice are rolled

44. Eight tennis players (call them A,B,C,D,E,G,F,H) are randomly assigned to start positions in a ladder
tournament. Initially, position 1 plays position 2, position 3 plays 4, 5 plays 6 and 7 plays 8. Second round
has 2 matches: winner of (1,2) match plays winner of (3,4), and winner (5,6) plays winner(7,8). The winners
of the two 2nd round matches play each other in the final match. Player A wins against any of the others.
Player B always beats any opponent except player A. What is the probability that player B wins the 2nd place
trophy in the final match?

45. In the same tournament type as in the previous problem, assume that the 8 players are of equal skill levels
so each has a 50-50 chance of winning any particular match. A and B happen to be twins. What is the
probability that they will play each other in some match during the tournament?

46.In the same tournament type as in the previous problem, assume that the 8 players are of equal skill levels
each has a 50-50 chance of winning any particular match. A and B happen to be twins. What is the probability
that they will play each other in some match during the tournament?

47. There are 12 boys and 8 girls in a tution centre. If three of them scored first mark, then what is the
probability that one of the three is a girl and the other two are boys?

a)14/75 b)22/55 c)44/95 d)noneofthese

48.A box contains 3 white, 4 red and 7 blue erasers. If five erasers are taken at random then the probability that
all5pthefivearebluecolor is:

a)13/211 b)2/126 c)3/286 d)12/121

49.Two groups, A and B wrote an exam. The probability of A's pass is 2/7 and the probability of B's pass is 2/5.
What is the probability that only one of them is passed out?

a)5/6 b)1/3 c)12/43 d)18/35

50.A boy gets a chance of 55% to win 1st round of a game and a girl gets a chance of 60% to win 2nd round of
the game. In what % of cases are they likely to contradict each other, narrating the same incident?

a)49% b)54% c)71% d)38%

51.8 persons are seated at a round table. What is the probability that 3 particular persons sit together? 
(a) 2/7
(b) 1/7
(c) 3/14
(d3/14
(e) None of these