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Probability

1. There are 15 boys and 10 girls in a class. If three students are selected at
random, what is the probability that 1 girl and 2 boys are selected?
a. 1/40
b. 1/2
c. 21/46
d. 7/41
e. None of these
2. Three dice are thrown together. Find the probability of getting a total of
at least 6?
a. 103/216
b. 103/208
c. 103/108
d. 36/103
e. None of these 
3. A bag contains 6 pink and 5 yellow balls. One ball is drawn randomly.
What is the probability that the ball drawn is Pink?
a. 5/11
b. 1/2
c. 3/11
d. 6/11
e. None of these
4. In a box there are 10 apples and 2/5th of the apples are rotten. If three
apples are taken out from the box, what will be the probability that at
least one apple is rotten.
a. 3/4
b. 5/6
c. 9/10
d. 8/13
e. None of these
5. A bag contains 5 yellow and 2 green and 3 red colour dice. If one dice
from the bag are chosen at random, what is the probability that dice is
either yellow or red colour?
a. 3/4
b. 4/5
c. 3/10
d. 7/10
e. None of these
6. A box contains 21 balls numbered 1 to 21. A ball is drawn and then
another ball is drawn without replacement. What is the probability that
both balls are even numbered?
a. 2/7
b. 8/21
c. 3/14
d. 5/21
e. None of these
7. There are 3 green, 4 orange and 5 white colour bulbs in a bag. If a bulb is
picked at random, what is the probability of having either a green or a
white bulb?
a. 3/4
b. 2/3
c. 4/3
d. 2/5
e. None of these
8. A box contains slips with numbers from 1 to 50 written on them. A slip is
drawn and replaced. Then another slip is drawn and after replacing
another slip is drawn. What is the probability that an even number
appears on the first draw, an odd number on the second draw and a
number divisible by 3 on the third draw? 
a. 1/25
b. 2/25
c. 8/25
d. 4/25
e. None of these
9. A committee of 3 members is to be made out of 6 men and 5 women.
What is the probability that the committee has at least two women?
a. 10/33
b. 14/33
c. 14/15
d. 13/25
e. None of these
10.The names of 5 students from section A, 6 students from section B and 7
students from section C were selected. The age of all the 18 students
was different. Again, one name was selected from them and it was
found that it was of section B. What was the probability that it was the
youngest student of the section B? 
a. 1/18
b. 1/15
c. 1/6
d. 1/12
e. None of these
11.There are total 18 balls in a bag. Out of them 6 are red in colour, 4 are
green in colour and 8 are blue in colour. If Vishal picks three balls
randomly from the bag, then what will be the probability that all the
three balls are not of the same colour?
a. 95/102
b. 19/23
c. 21/26
d. 46/51
e. None of these
12.A bag contains 35 balls of three different colours viz. red, orange and
pink. The ratio of red balls to orange balls is 3:2, respectively and
probability of choosing a pink ball is 3/7. If two balls are picked from the
bag, then what is the probability that one ball is orange and one ball is
pink?
a. 24/119
b. 60/119
c. 96/595
d. 3/17
e. None of these

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