PROBABILITY

Probability

• Concept related to Coins

• Concept related to Dice
• Concept related to Cards
• Concept related to box/bag containing items
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Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most two
heads?

A) 5/8
B) 7/8
C) 3/4
D) 1/8
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When 4 fair coins are tossed together what is the probability of getting at least 3
heads?

A) 1/4
B) 3/4
C) 5/16
D) 3/8
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A fair coin is tossed 11 times. What is the probability that only the first two
tosses will yield heads?

A) (1/2)^11
B) 1/2
C) (1/2)^9
D) None of these
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Two dice are thrown together. Find the probability of getting a total of at least
10?

A) 1/6
B) 2/5
C) 5/6
D) 3/5
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Two dice are tossed. The probability that the total score is a prime number is:

A) 1/4
B) 3/4
C) 7/12
D) 5/12
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Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting two
numbers whose product is even?

A) 1/4
B) 3/4
C) 5/16
D) 3/8
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Three dice are thrown together. Find the probability of Getting a total of at most
6?

A) 1/4
B) 7/54
C) 5/54
D) 3/5
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Four dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability that all of them show
the same face?

A) 1/216
B) 7/54
C) 1/36
D) 3/5
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You toss a coin AND roll a die. What is the probability of getting a tail and a 4 on
the die?

A) 11/12
B) 7/12
C) 1/12
D) 5/12
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A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. The probability of getting a queen of
club or a king of heart is:

A) 1/2
B) 1/26
C) 3/52
D) 4/26
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The probability that a card drawn from a pack of 52 cards will be a diamond
or a king, is:

A) 4/13
B) 3/13
C) 5/13
D) 1/13
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One card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards , each of the 52 cards being equally likely
to be drawn. Find the probability that the card  drawn is neither a spade nor a king?

A) 11/13
B) 8/13
C) 9/13
D) 10/13
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From a pack of 52 cards, 3 cards are drawn. What is the probability that one is
ace, one is queen and one is jack?

A) 23/5525
B) 7/5525
C) 11/5525
D) 16/5525
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Bag contain 10 black and 20 white balls, One ball is drawn at random. What is
the probability that ball is white:

A) 1
B) 2/3
C) 1/3
D) 4/3
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A box contains 3 white, 4 red and 7 blue erasers. If five erasers are taken at
random then the probability that all the five are blue color is:

A) 13/211
B) 2/126
C) 3/286
D) 12/121
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There are 3 green, 4 orange and 5 white color 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
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In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up
randomly. What is the probability that it is neither blue nor green?

A) 2/3
B) 8/21
C) 3/7
D) 9/22
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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
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Bag A contains 7 Red Balls, ‘X’ Green Balls, and 5 Yellow Balls. The probability
to pick Green Ball at random is 2/5. Another Bag B contains ‘X-3’ Red Balls, ‘X-4’
Yellow Balls and 6 Green Balls. If two balls are picked one after the other from
Bag B at random then what is the probability for the Balls to be Red?

A) 1/21
B) 2/21
C) 3/21
D) 4/21
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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
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There are 12 boys and 8 girls in a tuition 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) None of these
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What is the probability of getting 53 Mondays in a leap year?

A) 3/4
B) 1/4
C) 3/7
D) 2/7
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