1. The first 7 alphabets are written down at random.

what is the probability that the letters a,b,c

always come together?
A. 1/7 B. 2/7
C. 3/7 D. 4/7

Answer: A

2. The last 5 alphabets are written at random then the probability that the letters y and z are written
down side by side is : -
A. 1/5 B. 2/5
C. 3/5 D. 4/5

Answer: B

3. Find the probability that getting 4 digit number with 1 in the unit place and 2 in the tens place
when the numbers 1,2,3,4 and 5 are arranged at random without repeating.
A. 1/5 B. 1/10
C. 1/15 D. 1/20

Answer: D

4. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting the sum of the face number
is odd?
A. 1/2 B. 2/3
C. 3/4 D. 1/3

Answer: A

5. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting the sum of the face number
is at least 10?
A. 1/3 B. 1/6
C. 2/3 D. 5/6

Answer: B

6. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting the sum of the face number
is at most 5?
A. 2/9 B. 2/18
C. 4/9 D. 5/18

Answer: D

7. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting the face numbers are
same?
A. 1/6 B. 2/3
C. 4/9 D. 5/6

Answer: A

8. In a class, there are 12 boys and 16 girls. One of them is called out by an enroll number, what is
the probability that the one called is a girl?
A. 1/4 B. 2/5
C. 4/7 D. 5/12

Answer: C

9. 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. 2/126 B. 3/286
C. 12/121 D. 13/211

Answer: B

10. A box contains 6 bottles of variety 1 drink, 3 bottles of variety 2 drink and 4 bottles of variety 3
drink. Three bottles of them are drawn at random, what is the probability that the three are not of
A. 632/713 B. 752/833
C. 833/858 D. none of these

Answer: C

11. There are 12 boys and 8 girls in a tution 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

Answer: D

12. In a school, 45% of the students play football, 30% play volleyball and 15% both. If a student is
selected at random, then the probability that he plays football or volleyball is:
A. 1/4 B. 2/7
C. 3/5 D. 4/5

Answer: C

13. Two groups, A and B wrote an exam. The probability of A's pass is 2/7 and the probability of B's
pass is 2/5. What is the probability that only one of them is passed out?
A. 1/3 B. 5/6
C. 12/43 D. 18/35

Answer: D

14. A boy gets a chance of 55% to win 1st round of a game and a girl gets a chance of 60% to win
2nd round of the game. In what % of cases are they likely to contradict each other, narrating the
same inci
A. 38% B. 49%
C. 54% D. 71%

Answer: B

15. In a throw of coin what is the probability of getting head.

A. 0 B. 1
C. 2 D. 1/2

Answer: D
16. In a throw of coin what is the probability of getting tails.
A. 0 B. 1
C. 2 D. 1/2

Answer: D

17. Two unbiased coins are tossed. What is probability of getting at most one tail ?
A. 1/2 B. 2/3
C. 3/2 D. 3/4

Answer: D

18. Three unbiased coins are tossed, what is the probability of getting at least 2 tails ?
A. 1/2 B. 1/4
C. 1/6 D. 1/8

Answer: A

19. In a throw of dice what is the probability of getting number greater than 5
A. 1/2 B. 1/4
C. 1/6 D. 1/8

Answer: C

20. What is the probability of getting a sum 9 from two throws of dice.
A. 1/3 B. 1/6
C. 1/9 D. 1/12

Answer: C

21. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting two numbers whose
product is even ?
A. 1/2 B. 3/4
C. 5/7 D. 11/13
Answer: B

22. 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. 3/7
C. 8/21 D. 9/22

Answer: C

23. 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. 1/13 B. 1/26
C. 1/52 D. None of these

Answer: B

24. From a pack of 52 cards, 1 card is drawn at random. Find the probability of a face card drawn.
A. 1/4 B. 1/52
C. 4/13 D. None of these

Answer: C

25. 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. 5/19
C. 6/19 D. 7/19

Answer: D

26. A speaks truth in 75% of cases and B in 80% of cases. In what percentage of cases are they likely
to contradict each other, narrating the same incident
A. 15% B. 25%
C. 35% D. 45%
Answer: C

27. From a pack of 52 cards, two cards are drawn together, what is the probability that both the
cards are kings
A. 1/13 B. 1/57
C. 1/119 D. 1/221

Answer: D

28. A box contains 5 green, 4 yellow and 3 white balls. Three balls are drawn at random. What is the
probability that they are not of same colour.
A. 3/44 B. 31/44
C. 41/44 D. 61/44

Answer: C

29. Bag contain 10 back and 20 white balls, One ball is drawn at random. What is the probability
that ball is white
A. 1/3 B. 2/3
C. 1 D. 4/3

Answer: B

30. There is a pack of 52 cards and Rohan draws two cards together, what is the probability that one
is spade and one is heart ?
A. 3/102 B. 13/102
C. 23/102 D. 33/102

Answer: B

31. In binomial probability distribution, dependents of standard deviations must includes

A. probability of q B. probability of p
C. trials D. all of above
Answer: D

32. Formula to calculate standardized normal random variable is

A. x - μ ⁄ σ B. x + μ ⁄ σ
C. x - σ ⁄ μ D. x + σ ⁄ μ

Answer: A

33. In random experiment, observations of random variable are classified as

A. composition B. functions
C. events D. trials

Answer: D

34. Two unbiased coin are tossed .What is the probability of getting at most one head?
A. 1/4 B. 2
C. 3/4 D. 1

Answer: C

35. Two dice are thrown simultaneously ,what is the probability of getting a total of 7?
A. 1/3 B. 1/6
C. 1/12 D. 1/24

Answer: B

36. A bag contains 6 white and 4 black balls. Two balls are drawn at random. Find the probability
that they are of same colour.
A. 1 B. 2/15
C. 3 D. 7/15

Answer: D

37. A speaks truth in 75% cases and B in 80% of cases. In what percentage of cases they contradict
each other in narrating the same incident?
A. 15% B. 25%
C. 35% D. 45%

Answer: C

38. A bag contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue balls.Two balls are drawn at random.What is the
probability that none of the drawn ball is blue?
A. 5/21 B. 10/21
C. 15/21 D. 20/21

Answer: B

39. In which approach to probability the outcomes are equally likely to occur?
A. Classical Probability B. Subjective Probability
C. Relative Frequency D. Independent

Answer: A

40. Which of the following is not an example of a discrete probability distribution?

A. The number of bathrooms in a house B. The sale or purchase price of a house
C. The number of bedrooms in a house D. Whether or not a home has a swimming pool
in it.

Answer: B

41. If a card is chosen from a standard deck of cards, what is the probability of getting a five or a
seven?
A. 1/26 B. 4/52
C. 8/52 D. 1/169

Answer: C

42. If the occurrence of one event means that another cannot happen, then the events are
A. Bayesian B. Empirical
C. Independent D. Mutually Exclusive

Answer: D

43. Which of the following is not a correct statement about a probability.

A. A value near 0 means that the event is not B. It can be reported as a decimal or a fraction
likely to occur/happens
C. It must have a value between 0 and 1 D. It is the collection of several experiments

Answer: D

44. The collection of one or more outcomes from an experiment is called

A. Event B. Z-Value
C. Probability D. Random Variable

Answer: A

45. The joint probability is

A. Also called Prior probability B. Based on two mutually exclusive events
C. The likelihood of two events happening D. The likelihood of an event happening given
together that another event has already happened

Answer: C

46. In a Poisson probability distribution

A. It always contains a contingency table B. The number of trials is always less than 5
C. The probability of success is always greater D. The mean and variance of the distribution
than 5 are same (equal)

Answer: D

47. If a card is chosen from a standard deck of cards, what is the probability of getting a diamond
(♦) or a club(♣)?
A. 26/52=1/2 B. 13/52
C. 20/52 D. 12/52

Answer: A

48. In special rule of addition of probability, the events are always

A. Bayesian B. Empirical
C. Independent events D. Mutually Exclusive events

Answer: D

49. Which of the following is not a condition of the binomial distribution?

A. trials must be independent B. must have at least 3 trials
C. Only 2 possible outcomes D. have constant probability of success

Answer: B

50. If you roll a pair of dice, what is the probability that (at least) one of the dice is a 4 or the sum of
the dice is 7?
A. 15/36 B. 13/36
C. 4/36 D. None of these

Answer: A

51. The the special rule of multiplication of probability, the events must be
A. Empirical B. Bayesian
C. Independent D. Independent

Answer: C

52. A listing of the possibile outcomes of an experiment and their corresponding probability is called
A. Bayesian table B. Random Variable
C. Contingency table D. Probability distribution
Answer: D

53. Binomial distribution has parameters

A. 1 B. 2
C. 3 D. 4

Answer: B

54. The probability of success changes from trial to trial in

A. Sampling distribution B. Binomial distribution
C. Hypergeometric distribution D. Geometric distribution

Answer: C

55. The mean of binomial distribution is

A. npq B. np
C. √npq D. √np

Answer: B

56. Binomial distribution is negatively skewed when

A. p=0 B. p>1/2
C. p<1/2 D. p=-1/2

Answer: B

57. In binomial distribution n=6 and p=0.9, then the value of P(X=7) is
A. Zero B. One
C. Less than zero D. More than zero

Answer: A
58. The variance of binomial distribution is always
A. Less than mean B. Equal to mean
C. Greater than mean D. Equal to standard deviation

Answer: A

59. Successive trials in binomial distribution are

A. Dependent B. Independent
C. Equally Likely D. Mutually exclusive

Answer: B

60. Each trial in Binomial distribution has

A. One Outcome B. Two Outcome
C. Three Outcome D. Four Outcome

Answer: B

61. The successive trials are with replacement in

A. Geometric distribution B. Binomial distribution
C. Hypergeometric distribution D. None of above

Answer: B

62. Hypergeometric distribution has parameters

A. 1 B. 2
C. 3 D. 4

Answer: C

63. A random variable X has binomial distribution with n = 10 and p = 0.3 then variance of X is
A. 1 B. 1.1
C. 2.1 D. 3.1
Answer: D

64. In a binomial probability distribution it is impossible to find

A. P(X = 0) B. P(X < 0)
C. P(X > 0) D. P(0 ≤ X ≤ n)

Answer: B

65. In which distribution successive trials are without replacement

A. Poisson distribution B. Binomial distribution
C. Geometric distribution D. Hypergeometric distribution

Answer: D

66. A fair coin is tossed four times, the probability of getting four heads is
A. 1/4 B. 1/8
C. 1/16 D. 1/32

Answer: C

67. Which of the following is not the property of binomial distribution

A. n is fixed B. has two outcomes
C. Trials are independent D. Probability of success varies from trial to
trial

Answer: D

68. Binomial distribution is symmetrical when

A. p = q B. p>q
C. p < q D. np > npq

Answer: A

69. In hypergeometric distribution, the trials are

A. Dependent B. Independent
C. Collectively Exhaustive D. None of these

Answer: A

70. If in a binomial distribution n = 1 then E(X) is

A. q B. p
C. 0 D. 1

Answer: B

71. The mean, median and mode for binomial distribution will be equal when
A. p =0.5 B. p< 0.5
C. p> 0.5 D. p= 1

Answer: A

72. The mean of hypergeometric distribution is

A. nk/N B. n-k/N
C. n+k/N D. nn/N

Answer: A

73. Probability of occurrence of an event lies between

A. 0 and 1 B. -1 and 0
C. -1 and 1 D. exactly 1

Answer: A

74. For a probability density function (pdf), the probability of a single point is
A. 0 B. 1
C. 2 D. Constant

Answer: A
75. For a random variable X, E(X) is
A. Harmonic Mean (HM) B. Geometric Mean (GM)
C. Arithmetic Mean (AM) D. None of these

Answer: C

76. If C is non-random variable, the E(C) is

A. o B. 1
C. 2 D. C

Answer: D

77. The distribution function F(X) is represented by

A. P(X) B. P(X=x)
C. P(X>x) D. P(X≤x)

Answer: D

78. A discrete probability distribution may be represented by

A. A table B. A graph
C. A mathematical Equation D. All of these

Answer: D

79. Total Area under the curve in probability of density function is

A. 0 B. -1
C. 1 D. Infinity

Answer: C

80. Probability distribution of a random variable is also known as

A. Probability B. Probability Function
C. Distribution Function D. Probability Distribution
Answer: B

81. For distribution Function F(X), F(−∞)=0 and F(∞)= ?

A. 0 B. -1
C. 1 D. 2

Answer: C

82. The probability function is always

A. Negative B. Non Negative
C. Positive D. None of these

Answer: B

83. A bag contains 6 white and 4 black balls .2 balls are drawn at random. Find the probability that
they are of same colour.
A. 1/2 B. 7/15
C. 8/15 D. 1/9

Answer: B

84. Two cards are drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards.what is the probability that either both
are black or both are queen?
A. 52/221 B. 55/190
C. 55/221 D. 19/221

Answer: C

85. A man and his wife appear in an interview for two vacancies in the same post. The probability of
husband's selection is (1/7) and the probability of wife's selection is (1/5). What is the probability
A. 2/7 B. 1/7
C. 3/4 D. 4/5

Answer: A
86. A problem is given to three students whose chances of solving it are 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4
respectively. What is the probability that the problem will be solved?
A. 1/4 B. 1/2
C. 3/4 D. 7/12

Answer: C

87. In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 blanks. A lottery is drawn at random. What is the
probability of getting a prize?
A. 2/7 B. 5/7
C. 1/5 D. 1/2

Answer: A

88. Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at random. What is the
probability that the ticket drawn has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 5?
A. 1/2 B. 3/5
C. 9/20 D. 8/15

Answer: C

89. Two dice are tossed. The probability that the total score is a prime number is:
A. 5/12 B. 1/6
C. 1/2 D. 7/9

Answer: A

90. A bag contains 4 white, 5 red and 6 blue balls. Three balls are drawn at random from the bag.
The probability that all of them are red, is:
A. 2/91 B. 1/22
C. 3/22 D. 2/77

Answer: A
91. Two dice are thrown together .What is the probability that the sum of the number on the two
faces is divided by 4 or 6.
A. 7/18 B. 14/35
C. 8/18 D. 7/35

Answer: A

92. In a class, 30% of the students offered English, 20% offered Hindi and 10% offered both. If a
student is selected at random, what is the probability that he. has offered English or Hindi ?
A. 1/2 B. 3/4
C. 4/5 D. 2/5

Answer: D

93. In a class, there are 15 boys and 10 girls. Three students are selected at random. The probability
that 1 girl and 2 boys are selected, is:
A. 21/46 B. 1/5
C. 3/25 D. 1/50

Answer: A

94. What is the probability of getting 53 Mondays in a leap year?

A. 1/7 B. 3/7
C. 2/7 D. 1

Answer: C

95. If two letters are taken at random from the word HOME, what is the probability that none of the
letters would be vowels?
A. 1/6 B. 1/2
C. 1/3 D. 1/4

Answer: A
96. Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52 cards. The probability that one is a spade and
one is a heart, is:
A. 3/20 B. 29/34
C. 47/100 D. 13/102

Answer: D

97. Four dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability that all of them show the same face.
A. 1/216 B. 1/36
C. 2/216 D. 4/216

Answer: A

98. A speaks truth in 75% of cases and B in 80% of cases. In what percentage of cases are they likely
to contradict each other, narrating the same incident
A. 30/100 B. 35/100
C. 45/100 D. 45/100

Answer: B

99. A bag contains 6 black and 8 white balls. One ball is drawn at random. What is the probability
that the ball drawn is white?
A. 3/7 B. 4/7
C. 1/8 D. 3/4

Answer: B

100. A bag contains 50 tickets numbered 1,2,3,4......50 of which five are drawn at random and
arranged in ascending order of magnitude.Find the probability that third drawn ticket is equal to 30.
A. 551/15134 B. 1/2
C. 552/15379 D. 1/9

Answer: A