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This document contains 40 probability questions covering a variety of scenarios including drawing balls from bags, rolling dice, selecting cards, interview selections, and more. The questions involve calculating probabilities of single or multiple outcomes and range from relatively simple to more complex probability calculations.

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Probability Question

This document contains 40 probability questions covering a variety of scenarios including drawing balls from bags, rolling dice, selecting cards, interview selections, and more. The questions involve calculating probabilities of single or multiple outcomes and range from relatively simple to more complex probability calculations.

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Chanpreet Singh
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1. A bag contains 2 yellow, 3 green and 2 blue balls.

Two balls are drawn


at random. What is the probability that none of the balls drawn is blue?

2. A die is rolled twice. What is the probability of getting a sum equal to


9?

3. Three coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most two
tails?

4. When tossing two coins once, what is the probability of heads on both
the coins?

5. What is the probability of getting a number less than 4 when a die is


rolled?

6. A bag contains 4 black, 5 yellow and 6 green balls. Three balls are
drawn at random from the bag. What is the probability that all of them
are yellow?

7. One card is randomly drawn from a pack of 52 cards. What is the


probability that the card drawn is a face card(Jack, Queen or King)

8. A dice is thrown. What is the probability that the number shown in the
dice is divisible by 3?

9. John draws a card from a pack of cards. What is the probability that
the card drawn is a card of black suit?

10. 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?

11. What is the probability of selecting a prime number from 1,2,3,... 10


?
12. 3 balls are drawn randomly from a bag contains 3 black, 5 red and 4
blue balls. What is the probability that the balls drawn contain balls of
different colors?

13. 5 coins are tossed together. What is the probability of getting exactly
2 heads?

14. What is the probability of drawing a "Queen" from a deck of 52


cards?

15. A card is randomly drawn from a deck of 52 cards. What is the


probability getting an Ace or King or Queen?

16. A card is randomly drawn from a deck of 52 cards. What is the


probability getting a five of Spade or Club?

17. When two dice are rolled, what is the probability that the sum is
either 7 or 11?

18. A card is randomly drawn from a deck of 52 cards. What is the


probability getting either a King or a Diamond?

19. John and Dani go for an interview for two vacancies. The probability
for the selection of John is 1/3 and whereas the probability for the
selection of Dani is 1/5. What is the probability that none of them are
selected?

20. John and Dani go for an interview for two vacancies. The probability
for the selection of John is 1/3 and whereas the probability for the
selection of Dani is 1/5. What is the probability that only one of them is
selected?

21. A letter is randomly taken from English alphabets. What is the


probability that the letter selected is not a vowel?
22. The probability A getting a job is 1/5 and that of B is 1/7 . What is
the probability that only one of them gets a job?

23. A letter is chosen at random from the word 'ASSASSINATION'. What


is the probability that it is a vowel?

24. A letter is chosen at random from the word 'ASSASSINATION'. What


is the probability that it is a consonant?

25. 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?

26. One ball is picked up randomly from a bag containing 8 yellow, 7


blue and 6 black balls. What is the probability that it is neither yellow nor
black?

27. Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52 cards. The
probability that one is a club and one is a diamond?

28. Two cards are drawn together at random from a pack of 52 cards.
What is the probability of both the cards being Queens?

29. Two dice are rolled together. What is the probability of getting two
numbers whose product is even?

30. When two dice are tossed, what is the probability that the total score is
a prime number?

31. There are 10 prizes and 25 blanks in a lottery. If John has taken a
lottery, what is the probability for him to get a prize?

32. Six dice are tossed together. What is the probability of getting the
same face in all the dice?
33. Six dice are tossed together. What is the probability of getting
different faces in all of the dice?

34. Six persons enter a lift on the ground floor of a nine floor apartment.
Assuming that each of them independently and with equal probability can
leave the lift at any floor beginning with the first, what is the probability
that all the six persons are leaving the lift at different floors?

35. Raja has 4 tickets of a lottery for which 12 tickets were sold and 3
prices are to be given. What is the probability that Raja will win at least
one price?

36. A basket contains 15 apples and 10 oranges out of which 4 apples


and 2 oranges are defective. If a person takes two fruits at random, what
is the probability that either both are apples or both are good

37. A bag contains 4 blue, 5 white and 6 green balls. Two balls are drawn
at random. What is the probability that both the balls are blue?

38. A bag contains 4 blue, 5 white and 6 green balls. Two balls are drawn
at random. What is the probability that one ball is white?

39. Three boys P,Q and R are to speak at a function along with 5 others.
If all of them speak in random order, what is the probability that P
speaks before Q and Q speaks before R?

40. There is a point in a circle. What is the probability that this point is
closer to its circumference than to the centre?

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