Probability

Q1. Stephen owns 20 Van Halen T-shirt: 6 of them are long sleeved, 11 of them are short sleeved and 3 of them are sleevless. If he chooses a T-Shirt at random, what is the probability that the shirt will not be long sleeved? A)3/20 B)6/20 C)9/20 D)11/20 E)7/10

Q2. Sue sells 1/4th of the tickets for the school lottery to Andrew. Sue then sells 2/3 of the remaining tickets to Bob. Of the tickets Sue has left, Cathy buys 3/5. sue then purchases all of the remaining unsold tickets herself. What is the probability that Cathy will win the school lottery? A)10% B)15% C)25% D)50% E)66.3%

Q3. A two sided coin is tossed 3 times. What is the probability that heads will be the result exactly twice? A)3/4 B)2/3 C)1/2 D)3/5 E)3/8

Q4. A bag of gumdrops has 12 red, 5 green and 13 orange gumdrops. If a gumdrop is chosen from the bag at random, what is the probability that the gumdrop will not be green? A)5/6 B)3/5 C)13/20 D)2/5 E)1/6

Q5. Lottery balls numbered consecutively from one through one hundred are placed in a spinner.If one ball is drawn at random, what is the probability that it will have the number 1 on it exactly once? A.) 9/100 B) 1/10 C)11/100 D)19/100 E)1/5

Q6. A jar contains only red, yellow, and orange marbles. If there are 3 red, 5 yellow, and 4 orange marbles, and 3 marbles are chosen from the jar at random without replacing any of them, what is the probability that 2 yellow, 1 red, and no orange marbles will be chosen? A)1/60 B)1/45 C)2/45 D)3/22 E)5/22 Q7. WINK, Inc. follows a certain procedure that requires two tasks to be finished independently inorder for a job to be done. On any given day, there is a 7/8 probability that task 1 will be completed on time, and a 3 5 probability that task 2 will be completed on time. On a certain day,what is the probability that task 1 will be completed on time, but task 2 will not? A)1/20 B)3/40 C)13/40 D)7/20 E)12/40 Q8. Sarah cannot completely remember her 4 digit ATM pin number. She does remember the 1st 2 digits and she knows that each of the last 2 digits is more than 5. The ATM allows her 3 tries before it blocks further access. If she randomly guesses the last 2 digits, what is the probability that she will get access to her account? A)1/4 B)1/4 C)3/16 D)3/18 E)1/32 Q9. A bowl contains one marble labeled 0, one marble labeled 1, one marble labeled 2 and one marble labeled 3. the bowl contains no other thing. If 2 marbles are drawn at randomly without replacement, what is the probability that they will add up to 3? A)1/12 B)1/8 C)1/6 D)1/4 E)1/3

Q10. Given a spinner with four sections of equal size labeled A,B,C,D. What is the probability of not getting an A after spinning the spinner 2 times? A)9/16 B)1/8 C)1/4 D)1/2 E)15/16 Q11. Three groups of children contain (i) 3 girls and 1 boy; (ii) 3 girls and 3 boys; (iii) 2 boys and 1 girl. One child is selected at random from each group. Find the probability that the three selected children comprise of 1 girl and 2 boys. Q12. If out of 100 tosses of a coin, 56 were heads, find the probability that a tail appears in the next toss of the coin. Q13. Ninety balls are numbered from 1 to 90. Five balls are taken at random. What is the probability that there is at least one ball with a one-digit number? Q14. The Probability that a man will be alive after 25 years is 3/5 and the probability that his wife will be alive after 25 years is 2/3. Find the probability that (i) both will be alive, (ii) only the man will be alive, (iii) only the wife will be alive, (iv) at least one will be alive. Q15. In a class of 100 students, 60 drink tea, 50 drink coffee and 30 drink both tea and coffee. A student from this class is selected at random. What is the probability that the student takes (i) at least one of the two drinks, (ii) only one of the drinks? Q16. If n is an integer from 1 to 96, what is the probability for n*(n+1)*(n+2) being divisible by 8? A)25% B)50% C)62.5% D)65% E)75% Q17. Balls with consecutive integers from 0 to x are placed in b bowl. Peter draws a ball from the bowl and records the number. Without replacing the first ball, he draws a second ball from the bowl. If the probability that Peter

does not draw an odd numbered ball on either draw is 12/42, what integer is on the highest numbered ball? A)3 B)4 C)5 D)6 E)7