PROBABILITY

1. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability of obtaining a total score
of seven.
(a) 1/6

(b)1/36

(c)2/35

(d)1/12

2. What is the probability of getting exactly three heads while tossing 4 coins at a
time?
(a)1/6

(b)1/3

(c) 1 / 4

(d)1/12

3. What is the probability of getting at least three heads while tossing 5 coins at a
time?
(a)1/6

(b)1/3

(c) 1 / 4

(d)1 / 2

4. What is the probability of getting at most three heads while tossing 5 coins?
(a)12 /16

(b)13 / 16

(c) 12 / 32

(d)14 / 26

5. What is the probability of getting doublets while throwing 2 dice simultaneously?

(a)1/6

(b)1/3

(c) 1 / 4

(d)1 / 2

6. What is the probability that a number selected from 1, 2, 3.25 is a prime

number?
(a)7/29

(b)9/25

(c)8/25

(d)1/25

7. Find the probability of getting heads in all four trials when a coin is tossed four
times.
(a)1/16

(b)1/32

(c)1/64

(d)1/8

8. Two fair dice are thrown. Find the probability of getting a sum which is a prime
number < 8?
(a) 11/13

(b) 13/36

(c) 1/13

(d)

9. When a pair of fair dice is rolled once, what is the probability that both dice do
not show up a 6?
(a) 25/36

(b) 35/36

(c) 11/36

(d) 1/6

10. An anti aircraft gun can fire four shots at a time. If the probabilities of the first,
second, third and the last shot hitting the enemy aircraft are 0.7, 0.6, 0.5 and 0.4,

what is the probability that four shots aimed at an enemy aircraft will bring the
aircraft down?
(a) 0.036

(b) 0.934

(c) 0.964.

(d) 0.042

11. A speaks truth in 75% and B in 80% of the cases. In what percentages of cases
are they likely to contradict each other narrating the same incident?
(a) 25%

(b) 65%

(c) 35%

(d) 50%

12. From a pack of 52 playing cards, four cards are drawn at random. Find the
probability of drawing all the four cards of the same suit.
(a) 13C4 / 52C4 (b) 4 * (13C4 / 52C4) (c) 4C4 / 52C4 (d) None of these
13. If two cards are drawn at random what is the probability that the 1 st is a king
and the 2nd belongs to heart?
(a) 1/52

b) 2/13

c) 4/51

d) None of these

14. A box contains 20 electric bulbs out of which 4 are defective. Two bulbs are
chosen at random from this box. The probability that at least one of these is
defective is:
(a) 4 / 19

(b) 7 / 19

(c) 12 / 19

(d) 10 / 21

15. A man and his wife appear in an interview for two vacancies in the same post.
The probability of husbands selection is (1 / 7) and the probability of wifes
selection is (1 / 5). What is the probability that only one of them is selected?
(a) 4 / 5

(b) 2 / 7

(c) 8 /15

(d) 4 / 7

ASSIGNMENT SHEET
16. The probability that A can solve the problem is 2/3 and B can solve the problem
is .if both of them attempt the problem, then what is the probability that the
problem gets solved.
(a) 1/2

(b) 17/12

(c) 1/4

(d) 11/12

17. Two dice are tossed. The probability that the total score is a prime number is:
(a) 1 / 6

(b) 5 / 12

(c) 1 / 2

(d) 7 / 9

18. A drawer contains 50 bolts and 150 nuts. Half of the bolts and half of the nuts
are rusted. If one of the items is chosen at random, the probability that it is rusted
or a bolt is

(a) 5/8

(b)

(c) 3/8

(d) 1/8

19. A card is chosen from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. What is the probability
that the card chosen is a spade number?
(a)

(b) 2/13

(c)5/26

(d) 1/26

20. Two cards are drawn from a pack of cards in succession (with replacement). Find
the probability that both are king.
(a)1/144

(b)1/169

(c)1/171

(d)1/2

21. The probability of a student possessing a Hi-Tech point pen is 3/5 and that of
possessing a ball point pen is 2/3. Find the probability that a student can have at
least one type of pen.
(a) 3/5

(b) 2/5

(c) 13/15

(d) 1/15

22. When 3 coins are tossed together what is the probability of getting exactly 2
tails?
(a) 3/8

(b) 8/9

(c) 2/3

(d) None of these

23. If A speaks the truth 80 % of the times and B speaks the truth 60 % of the
times. What is the probability that both speak the truth at the same time?
(a) 0.8

(b) 0.48

(c) 0.6

(d) 0.14

24. The probability that a computer company will get a computer hardware contract
is 2/3, and the probability that it will not get a software contract is 5/9. If the
probability of getting at least one contract is 4/5, what is the probability that it will
get both the contracts?
(a) 21 / 45 (b) 8 / 27

(c) 14 / 45

(d) 32 / 135

25. Tickets numbered from 1 to 20 are mixed up together and then a ticket is drawn
at random. The probability that the ticket has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 7
is
(a) 1/5

(b) 2/5

(c) 3/5

(d) 4/5