1. A die is rolled once. Find the probability of getting 3.

2. A coin is tossed once. What is the probability of getting the tail ?

3. What is the probability of the die coming up with a number greater than 3 ?

4. In a simultaneous toss of two coins, find the probability of getting ' at least' one tail.

5. From a bag containing 15 red and 10 blue balls, a ball is drawn 'at random'. What is the
probability of drawing a red ball?

6. A die is rolled once. Find the probability of getting 7.

7. If two dice are thrown, what is the probability that the sum is 10?

8. If two dice are thrown, what is the probability that the sum is 12?

9. If two dice are thrown, what is the probability that the sum of the numbers on the two
faces is divisible by 3 or by 4 ?

10. A pair of dice are thrown. Find the probability of getting

(i) a sum as a prime number

(ii) a doublet, i.e., the same number on both dice

11. Three coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting
(i) no head
(ii) at least one head
(iii) all heads

CALCULATING PROBABILITY OF PICKING BALLS SEPARATELY

1. A bag contains 3 red, 6 white and 7 blue balls. If two balls selected randomly and picked
separately without replacement, what is the probability that two balls will be both white?

2. A bag contains 5 red and 8 blue balls. If two balls selected randomly and picked separately
with replacement, what is the probability that two balls drawn are red and blue ?

3. An integer is chosen at random from the first 50 positive integers. Find the probability
that the integer is divisible by 6 or 8.

4. X is a prime number and takes a value from 1 to 20, exclusive of both. What is the probability
that X takes a value from 0 to 10, inclusive of both?
5. What is the probability of selecting an odd number from 1,2,....n, where n is odd number
greater than 50 ?
A) n/2
B) (n+1)/2n
C) (n –1)/2n
D) 1/2
E) 25/51

6. A fair dice is tossed. Event A is defined as getting a prime number and event B is defined as
getting an even number. Which of the following is true?(Select all that apply)
A) P(B) = ½
B) P(A and B) = 0
C) P(A) + P(B) = 1
D) P(A and B) = 1/6
E) P(A)= 4/6

CALCULATING PROBABILITY USING COMBINATORICS

7 . A bag contains 3 red, 6 white and 7 blue balls. What is the probability that two balls
drawn at random are both blue?

8. A bag contains 5 red and 8 blue balls. What is the probability that two balls drawn are
red and blue ?
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Quantitative Comparison questions
1. A coin is tossed 3 times

QUANTITY A QUANTITY B
the probability of tossing 3 tails 1
2

2. A number cube (die) is rolled and a coin is tossed

QUANTITY A QUANTITY B
total number of possible outcomes 8

3. A card is drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards.

QUANTITY A QUANTITY B
probability of drawing a queen probability of drawing a king

4. A card is drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards.

QUANTITY A QUANTITY B
probability of drawing a queen probability of drawing a heart

5. A bag contains 6 blue marbles and 4 red marbles. Two marbles are selected at
random, one after the other (the first marble is not replaced in the bag after it is
drawn).

QUANTITY A QUANTITY B
probability of drawing probability of drawing 2 probability of drawing probability of drawing 2
blue marbles red marbles
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Data sufficiency
Possible Answers:

A. Statement (1) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (2) alone is not sufficient.

B. Statement (2) ALONE is sufficient, but statement (1) alone is not sufficient.

D. EACH statement ALONE is sufficient.

C. BOTH statements TOGETHER are sufficient, but NEITHER statement ALONE is sufficient. 

E. Statements (1) and (2) TOGETHER are NOT sufficient.

1. A class contains boys and girls.  What is the probability of selecting a boy from a class?

Statement #1: there are 35 students in the class

Statement #2: the ratio of boys to girls is 3:4

2.  Suppose A and B are two events that are not independent.  Is the probability

P(A and B) > 1/3?

Statement #1: P(A) = 0.8 and P(B) = 0.7

Statement #2: P(A or B) =0.9

3. A fair coin is tossed a given number of times. What is the probability that three or more
of the tosses will come up heads?

Statement #1 : The number of times the coin is tossed is four.

Statement #2 : The previous day, the coin was tossed ten times, and heads came up eight times.

4. Jenkins has a box of 36 guitar picks. Each pick is one of three colors: blue, black, or
orange. What are the odds of randomly selecting a black pick, followed by a blue pick,
followed by an orange pick?

Statement #1 : There are 14 more orange picks than blue picks. 

Statement #2 : There are 12 black picks.