Mathematics Q.

Probability 1 1 2 1 2 3
1. If P(E) denotes the probability of an event E, then E is (1) (2) (3) (1) (2) (3) (4) 1 (5)
called certain event if 2 4 3 4 4 4
(1) P(E) =0 (2) P(E) =1 1 None of these
(4)
1 6 14. Two dices are thrown. Find the probability of getting the
(3) P(E) is either 0 or 1 (4) P(E) =
2 sum of digits on the top surface equal to 9 when the digit
Directions (8-9): A vase contains one black ball and one on the top the first dice is 5 ?
green ball. Second vase contains one white ball and one
2. What is the probability of 53 Mondays in a randomly
green ball. One ball is taken out of each vase randomly.
1 1 1 5
selected leap year? (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) None
8. What is the probability of both the balls being of the 9 6 216 6
2 2 1 same colour? of these
(1) (2) (3)
5 7 7 1 1 1
(1) (2) (3) 15. 5 boys and 4 girls are sitting in a row. What is the
5 2 3 4
(4) probability of no two girls sitting together?
7 2 5 37 25 17
(4) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) None
3 42 42 42 42
3. Three coins are simultaneously tossed. What is the
probability of appearing two heads and one tail? ∩ of these
9. What is the probability of getting at least one green ball?
1 1 1 3 1 1 2 16. A bag contains 9 white and 3 red balls. Two balls are
(1) (2) (3) (4) (1) (2) (3)
3 2 4 8 2 3 3 picked up one by one randomly. Find the probability of
getting both the balls of different colours.
3
3 (4) 9 3 6 3
4. If A and B are two events for which P(A B) = ,P 4 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) None
4 10. 4 children are to be chosen randomly from 5 girls and 3
22 22 22 11
1 1 of these
boys for a quiz contest. What is the probability of all of
(A∩ B) = , P( A ) = , where A is complementary them to be girls?
4 3 17. Ram and Shyam are standing in a row with 5 people.
to A, find P(B). 1 1 5 2 Find the probability of Ram and Shyam Standing
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) None
1 2 1 2 14 7 17 17 together?
(1) (2) (3) (4)
3 3 9 9 of these 1 2 1 3
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) None
11. A basket has three red and four green balls. If four balls
2 3 4 4
2 are taken out of the basket randomly, what is the of these
5. In 10 trials, having the probability of success , what is
3 probability of two being red and two being green?
18. The letters of the word ARTICLE are arranged
the maximum possible number of successes? 4 2 18 3 randomly in several ways. What is the probability of the
(1) 10 (2) 7 (3) 5 (4) 4 (1) (2) (3) (4)
7 7 35 14 vowels to come at even places?

Directions (6-7): Two dices, which are marked from 1

(5) None of these 1 1 1 1
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
to 6, are thrown simultaneously. Let A and B be two
12. If a card is randomly picked from a pack of playing
33 34 35 36
events given as follows: 1
cards, find the probability of getting a black card.
A: First dice has an even number
B: Second dice has a number greater than 4. 1 1 1 1 37
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
6. P(A B) is equal to? 2 3 4 6
Directions (19-20): Read the given information
1 1 2 1 None of these
carefully and answer the given questions −¿
(1) (2) (3) (4)
2 4 3 6 13. A coin is tossed twice. Find the probability of getting at
A vessel contains 6 red, 4 blue, 2 green and 3 yellow
marbles.
least one tail.
7. P(A∩B) is equal to ? 19. If three marbles are taken out instantly, what is the
possibility of two of them being blue and one being
yellow?
 3 1 18 26. Without putting back, two cards are drawn out one by 32. A hits the target accurately 2 out of three times. Whereas
(1) (2) (3) one. What is the probability of both the cards to be B succeeds 3 out of 4 times. Both tried to hit the target.
91 5 455 King? What is the probability that the target will be hit?
7 2 1 1 30 1 7 11 5 7
(4) (1) (2) (3) (4) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
15 13 169 220 221 12 12 12 7 11
1
20. If two marbles are taken out instantly, what is the (5) 33. A bag contains 5 white, 6 red and 4 black balls. 4 balls
probability of both of them to be either green or yellow? 221 are taken out. What is the probability of getting majority
5 1 1 of white balls?
(1) (2) (3) 27. A dice is thrown twice. What is the probability of
91 35 3 getting 4, 5 or 6 in the first throw and 1, 2, 3 or 4 in the
24 37 4 8
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) None
4 second throw? 91 91 91 91
(4)
105 1 7 of these
(1) 1 (2) (3) (4) None of
3 36 34. Ram speaks truth 75% and Shyam 80%. What is the
21. If A and B are two events such that P (A B) = P(A ∩ these
probability that while describing the same incident both
B), the true relation is of them will contradict each other ?
(1) P (A) + P (B) = 0 28. A ticket is taken out from 10000 lottery tickets marked
(2) P (A) + P (B) = P (A) P (B/A) from 1 to 10000. What is the probability of the number
1 4 7 13
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
(3) P (A) + P (B) = 2P(A) P (B/A) on ticket to be divisible by 20 ? 5 5 20 20
(4) None of these 1 1 1 1 None of these
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) None
100 50 20 10 35. A bag contains 6 red and 8 black balls. Four balls are
22. The probability of occurrence of an event A is 0.5 and of these
the probability of occurrence of B is 0.3. If A and B are taken out twice. After taking out the four balls in the
mutually exclusive events, the probability of non- first instance, the balls are kept back. What is the
29. A coin is tossed twice. If the events A and B are defined probability that in the first instance all the balls are red
occurrence of either of them is
as follows: A= Heads in the first toss, B = Heads in the and in the second instance all the balls are black?
(1) 0.6 (2) 0.2 (3) 0.21 (4) None of these second toss, the probability of A B is
15 151 150
1 1 1 3 (1) (2) (3)
23. The possibility to fail in Physics is 20% and possibility (1) (2) (3) (4) 143 1431 143143
to fall in Mathematics is 10%. What is the possibility to 4 2 8 4 15
fail in at least one subject? (4)
(1) 28% (2) 30% (3) 72% (4) 82% 30. Three letters are sent to three different persons and 4314
addresses are written on three envelops. Without looking (5) None of these
24. One of the two events definitely happens. If the at the addresses, what is the probability of the letters to
2 be inserted in the correct envelopes? 36. The possibilities of three Indians to reach the next level
probability of first is time of the probability of 1 1 4 1 2 3
3 (1) (2) (3) in a tennis match are , and . What is the
second, the odds in the favour of the second is 27 9 27 4 5 7
(1) 2 : 3 (2) 1 : 3 (3) 3 : 1 (4) 3 : 2 1 possibility that only one player will reach the next level.
(5) None of these (4) (No Indian players are playing against each other)
6
3 17 67 67
25. Two cards are drawn out from a deck of cards one at a (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) None
time. What is the probability of the first to be a card of 31. What is the probability that on randomly arranging the 70 20 140 70
words formed by the letters of the word EETI, all the of these
diamond and second to be a King?
vowels do not come together?
1 17 1
(1) (2) (3) (4) None 1 1 1 1 37. Three-digit numbers are formed from the digits 3, 4, 5,
26 2704 52 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 6, 7. What is the probability that the number formed will
of these
12 4 3 2 be divisible by 2 ?
1 3 2 1 1
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) None of
6 5 5 5 10
these
38. A bag contains 5 silver and 2 gold coins. Another bag 43. Three marbles are picked randomly, what is the
contains 4 silver and 3 gold coins. A coin is taken out of probability that two are blue and one is yellow?
a bag. What is the probability of it being a silver coin? 2 6 12 3
5 3 1 9 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) None
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) None of 15 91 91 15
14 7 2 14 of these
these
44. Four marbles are picked randomly, what is the
39. Sohan and Mohan appear before an interview board probability that at least one marble is yellow?
which is held to occupy a vacancy. The probability of 91 69 125 1
2 1 (1)
123
(2)
91
(3)
143
(4)
4
(5) None
Sohan and Mohan getting selected are and
5 4 of these
respectively. What is the possibility that one of them
will be selected? 45. If two marbles are picked randomly, what is the
11 5 13 probability of both of them to be either red or green?
(1) (2) (3)
20 6 20 3 4 2 5
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) None
9 5 105 7 91
(4)
20 of these

40. A basket contains 4 mangoes, 3 bananas, and 2 oranges.

What will be the probability of getting one mango and
one banana in two consecutive picks, when the first fruit
picked is immediately kept back and then the second
fruit is picked?
2 1 4 5
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) None
27 9 27 27
of these

41. A basket contains three blue and four red balls. If three
balls are taken out of the basket randomly, then what is
the possibility of all three of them to be either blue or
red?
1 3 2
(1) 1 (2) (3) (4)
7 4 5
(5) None of these

Directions (42-45) : Study the given arrangement

carefully and answer the given questions−¿
A vase contains 3 red, 6 blue, 2 green and 4 yellow
marbles.
42. If two marbles are picked randomly, what is the
probability of both of them to be blue?
2 1 2 1
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) None
15 15 7 7
of these