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1. 6 coins are tossed simultaneously .
The propability of getting atleast 6
heads is :
(A)
57
64
(B)
229
256
(C)
7
64
(D)
37
256
2. The probabilities of three mutually
exclusive events are
2
3
,
1
4
&
1
6
.
The statement is :
(A) True (B) Wrong
(C) Could be either
(D) Do not know
3. A & B toss a coin alternatively, the
first to show a head being the winner.
If A starts the game, the chance of his
winning is :
(A)
5
8
(B)
1
2
(C)
1
3
(D)
2
3
4. A & B are two events such that and
P

(A) = 0.4, P (A + B) = 0.7 and
P (AB) = 0.2, then P (B) =
(A) 0.1 (B) 0.3
(C) 0.5 (D) None of these
5. Suppose that A, B, C are events such
that P (A) = P (B) = P (C) =
1
4
,
P (AB) = P (CB) = 0, P (AC) =
1
8
,
then P (A + B) =
(A) 0.125 (B) 0.25
(C) 0.375 (D) 0.5
6. A single letter is selected at random
from the word PROBABILITY . The
probability that the selected letter is a
vowel is :
(A)
2
11
(B)
3
11
(C)
4
11
(D) 0
7. If A & B are two events such that,
P (A B) = P (A B), then the true
relation is :
(A) P (A) = P (B) = 0
(B) P (A) + P (B) = P (A)

P

B
A

(C) P (A) + P (B) = 2 P (A) P

B
A

(D) None of these

8. A coin is tossed and a dice is rolled .
The probability that the coin shows
the head and the dice shows 6 is :
(A)
1
8
(B)
1
12
(C)
1
2
(D) 1
9. A card is drawn at random from a
pack of cards . The probability of this
card being a red or a queen is :
(A)
1
13
(B)
1
26
(C)
1
2
(D)
7
13
10. The probability of happening an even
A is 0.5 and that of B is 0.3 . If A & B
are mutually exclusive events, then
Probability
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the probability of happening neither
A nor B is :
(A) 0.6 (B) 0.2
(C) 0.21 (D) None of these
11. If P

(A) = 0.4, P

(B) = x, P

(A

B) =
0. 7 and t he event s A & B are
independent, then x =
(A)
1
3
(B)
1
2
(C)
2
3
(D) None of these
12. A box contains 6 nails and 10 nuts .
Half of the nails and half of the nuts
are rusted . If one item is chosen at
random, what is the probability that
it is rusted or is a nail .
(A)
3
16
(B)
5
16
(C)
11
16
(D)
14
16
13. A man draws a card from a pack of
52 pl ayi ng cards, repl aces i t and
shuffles the pack . He continues this
process until he gets a card of spade .
The probability that he will fail the
first two times is :
(A)
9
16
(B)
1
16
(C)
9
64
(D) None of these
14. In a box of 10 electric bulbs, two are
defective . Two bulbs are selected at
random one after the other from the
box . The first bulb after selection
bei ng put back i n t he box before
making the second selection . The
probability that both the bulbs are
without defect is :
(A)
9
25
(B)
16
25
(C)
4
5
(D)
8
25
15. If A & B are any two events, then the
true relation is :
(A) P (A B) > P (A) + P (B) - 1
(B) P (A B) < P (A) + P (B)
(C) P

(A

B) = P

(A)

+

P

(B)

P

(A

B)
(D) None of these
16. A box contains 15 tickets numbered
1, 2, ..... , 15 . Seven tickets are drawn
at random one after the other with
replacement . The probability that the
greatest number on a drawn ticket is
9, is :
(A)
9
10
6

(B)
8
15
7

(C)
3
5
7

(D) None of these

17. A purse contains 4 copper coins & 3
silver coins, the second purse contains
6 copper coins & 2 silver coins . If a
coin is drawn out of any purse, then
the probability that it is a copper coin,
is :
(A)
4
7
(B)
3
4
(C)
37
56
(D) None of these
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18. If A & B are any two events, then the
probability that exactly one of them
occur is :
(A) P (A) + P (B) - P (A B)
(B) P (A) + P (B) - 2

P (A B)
(C) P (A) + P (B) - P (A B)
(D) P (A) + P (B) - 2

P (A B)
19. If A & B are two mutually exclusive
events, then P (A + B) =
(A) P (A) + P (B) - P (AB)
(B) P (A) - P (B)
(C) P (A) + P (B)
(D) P (A) + P (B) + P (AB)
20. The probability of happening atleast
one of the events A & B is 0.6 . If the
events A & B hapens simultaneously
with the probability 0.2, then
P
( )
A + P
( )
B =
(A) 0.4 (B) 0.8
(C) 1.2 (D) None of these
21. A problem of mathematics is given
to three students whose chances of
solving the problem are
1
3
,
1
4
&
1
5
respectively . The probability that the
question will be solved is :
(A)
2
3
(B)
3
4
(C)
4
5
(D)
3
5
22. If P

(A
1
A
2
) = 1 - P

(A
1
c
) P (A
2
c
),
where c stands for complement, then
the events A
1
& A
2
are :
(A) Mutually exclusive
(B) Independent
(C) Equally likely
(D) None of these
23. A speaks truth in 75% cases and B in
80% cases . In what % of cases are
they likely to contradict each other in
stating the same fact .
(A) 5 % (B) 55 %
(C) 35 % (D) 45 %
24. Six boys and six girls sit in a row .
What is the probability that the boys
and girls sit alternatively .
(A)
1
462
(B)
1
924
(C)
1
2
(D) None of these
25. A man and a woman appear in an
interview for 2 vacancies in the same
post . The prob. of mans selction is
1/4 and that of womans selection is
1/3 . What is the probability that none
of them will be selected ?
(A)
1
2
(B)
1
12
(C)
1
4
(D) None of these
26. 3 dice are thrown simultaneously.
What is the probability of obtaining a
total of 17 or 18 ?
(A)
1
9
(B)
1
72
(C)
1
54
(D) None of these
27. An unbiased die with faces marked
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6 is rolled four times .
Out of four face values obtained the
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probability that the minimum face
val ue i s not l ess t hat 2 and t he
maximum face value is not greater
than 5, is :
(A)
16
81
(B)
1
81
(C)
80
81
(D)
65
81
28. A coin is tossed until a head appears
or until the coin has been tossed five
times . If a head does not occur on
t he fi rst t wo t osses, t hen t he
probability that the coin will be tossed
5 times is :
(A)
1
2
(B)
3
5
(C)
1
4
(D)
1
3
29. Cards are drawn one by one at
random from a well shuffled full pack
of 52 cards unt i l t wo aces are
obtained for the first time . If N is the
number of cards required to be drawn
then P
r
(N

=

n), where 2 n 50, is :
(A)
( ) ( ) ( ) n n n

1 52 51
50 49 17 13
(B)
2 1 52 51
50 49 17 13
( ) ( ) ( ) n n n

(C)
3 1 52 51
50 49 17 13
( ) ( ) ( ) n n n

(D)
4 1 52 51
50 49 17 13
( ) ( ) ( ) n n n

30. The probabilities that A & B will die
within a year are p & q respectively,
then the probability that only one of
them will be alive at the end of the
year is :
(A) p + q (B) P + q - 2

qp
(C) p + q - pq (D) p + p + pq
31. One hundred identical coins each
wi t h probabi l i t y p of showi ng up
heads are tossed once . If 0 < p < 1
and the probability of heads showing
on 50 coins is equal to that of heads
showing on 51 coins, then the value
of p is :
(A)
1
2
(B)
49
101
(C)
50
101
(D)
51
101
32. The letter of the word ASSASSIN
are written down at random in a row.
The probability that no two S occur
together is :
(A)
1
35
(B)
1
14
(C)
1
15
(D) None of these
33. A bag A contains 2 white & 3 red
balls & bag B contains 4 white & 5
red balls . One ball is drawn at random
from a randomly chosen bag and is
found to be red . The probability that
it was drawn from bag B was :
(A)
5
14
(B)
5
16
(C)
5
18
(D)
25
52
34. India plays two matches each with
West Indies & Australia . In any match
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the probabilities of India getting point
0, 1 & 2 are 0. 45, 0. 05 & 0. 50
respect ivel y . Assumi ng t hat t he
out comes are i ndependent s, t he
probability of India getting atleast 7
points is :
(A) 0.8750 (B) 0.0875
(C) 0.0625 (D) 0.0250
35. From the word POSSESSIVE, a
l et t er i s chosen at random . The
probability of it to be S is :
(A)
3
10
(B)
4
10
(C)
3
6
(D)
4
6
36. If A & B are two independent events
such that

P

(A

B) = 3/25 and
P

(A

B) = 8/25, then P

(A) =
(A)
1
5
(B)
3
8
(C)
2
5
(D)
4
5
37. A fair coin is tossed n times . Let X
be t he number of t i mes head i s
observed . If P (X = 4), P (X = 5) and
P

(X = 6) are in H.P., then it is equal to
(A) 7 (B) 10
(C) 14 (D) None of these
38. A pair of fair dice is rolled together
till a sum of either 5 or 7 is obtained.
Then the probability that 5 comes
before 7 is :
(A)
1
5
(B)
2
5
(C)
4
5
(D) None of these
39. Urn A contains 6 red & 4 black balls
and urn B contains 4 red & 6 black
balls . One ball is drawn at random
from urn A & placed in urn B . Then
one ball is drawn at random from urn
B & placed in urn A . If one ball is
now drawn at random from urn A, the
prob. that it is found to be red is :
(A)
32
55
(B)
21
55
(C)
19
55
(D) None of these
40. A box contains 100 tickets numbered
1, 2, ..... , 100 . Two tickets are chosen
at random . It i s gi ven t hat t he
maximum number on the two chosen
tickets is not more than 10 . The
minimum number on them is 5 with
probability :
(A)
1
8
(B)
13
15
(C)
1
7
(D) None of these
41. If
1 3
3
+ p
,
1
4
p
and
1 2
2
p
are the
probabilities of 3 mutually exclusive
events, then the set of all values of p
is :
(A)
1
3
1
2
p (B)
1
3
1
2
< < p
(C)
1
3
2
3
p (D)
1
3
2
3
< < p
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42. Let p denotes the probability that a
man aged x years will die in a year .
The probability that out of n men A
1
,
A
2
, A
3
, ....

, A
n
each aged x, A
1
will
die in a year and will be the first to
die, is :
(A)
1
n
[1

(1

p)
n
] (B) [1

(1

p)
n
]
(C)
1
1 n
[1

(1

p)
n
]
(D) None of these
43. For a biased die the probabilities for
different faces to turn up are given
below,
Face :

1

2 3 4 5 6
Probability : .1 .32 .21 .15 .05 .17
The die is tossed and you are told that
either face 1 or 2 has turned up . Then
the probability that it is face 1, is :
(A)
5
21
(B)
5
22
(C)
4
21
(D) None of these
44. One bag contains 5 white & 4 black
balls . Another bag contains 7 white
and 9 black balls . A ball is transferred
from the first bag to the second and
then a ball is drawn from second . The
probability that the ball is white is :
(A)
8
17
(B)
40
153
(C)
5
9
(D)
4
9
45. A di e i s t ossed t wi ce . Get t i ng a
number greater than 4 is considered
a success . Then the variance of the
probability distribution of the number
of successes is :
(A)
2
9
(B)
4
9
(C)
1
27
(D) None of these
46. Three groups of chi l dren cont ai n
respectively 3 girls & 1

boy, 2 girls &
2 boys, 1 girl & 3 boys . One child is
selected at random from each group .
The chance t hat t hree sel ect ed
consisting of 1 girl & 2 boys, is :
(A)
9
32
(B)
3
32
(C)
13
32
(D) None of these
47. Out of 21 t i cket s marked wi t h
numbers from 1 t o 21, t hree are
drawn at random . The chance that
the numbers on them are in A.P., is
(A)
10
133
(B)
9
133
(C)
9
1330
(D) None of these
48. A determinant is chosen at random .
The set of all determinants of order 2
wi t h el ement s 1 or 1 onl y . The
probabi l i t y t hat t he val ue of t he
determinant chosen is positive, is :
(A)
3
16
(B)
3
8
(C)
1
4
(D) None of these
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49. An unbiased coin is tossed . If the
result is a head, a pair of unbiased dice
is rolled and the number obtained by
adding the numbers on the two faces
is noted . If the result is a tail, a card
from a well shuffled pack of eleven
cards numbered 2, 3, 4,

.....

, 12 is
picked and the number on the card is
noted . The probability that the noted
number is either 7 or 8, is :
(A) 0.24 (B) 0.244
(C) 0.024 (D) None of these
50. A bag contains 3 white, 3 black and
2 red balls . One by one three balls
are drawn without replacing them .
The probability that the third ball is
red, is :
(A)
1
2
(B)
1
3
(C)
2
3
(D)
1
4
51. Three groups A, B, C are competing
for positions on the Board fo Directors
of a company . The probabilities of
t hei r wi nni ng are 0. 5, 0. 3, 0. 2
respectively . If the group A wins, the
probabi l i t y of i nt roduci ng a new
product is 0.7 and the corresponding
probabilities for the group B & C are
0.6 & 0.5 respectively . The prob. that
the new product will be introduced,
is :
(A) 0.18 (B) 0.35
(C) 0.10 (D) 0.63
52. The probability that a man can hit a
target is 3/4 . He tries 5 times . The
probability that he will hit the target
atleast three times, is :
(A)
291
364
(B)
371
464
(C)
471
502
(D)
459
512
53. Three of the six vertices of a regular
hexagon are chosen at random . The
probability that the triangle with these
3 vertices is equilateral, is equal to :
(A)
1
2
(B)
1
5
(C)
1
10
(D)
1
20
54. A bag contains 3 red, 4 white and 5
blue balls . All balls are different .
Two balls are drawn at random . The
probability that they are of different
colour, is :
(A)
47
66
(B)
10
33
(C)
5
22
(D) None of these
55. In order to get atleast once a head with
probability 0.9, the number of times
a coin needs to be tossed, is :
(A) 3 (B) 4
(C) 5 (D) None of these
56. Let 0 < P (A) < 1, 0 < P (B) < 1 and
P

(A B) = P

(A) + P

(B) P

(A) P

(B).
Then :
(A) P
B
A

= P (B) - P (A)
(B) P (A
c
B
c
) = P (A
c
) + P (B
c
)
(C) P (A B)
c
= P (A
c
)

P (B
c
)
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(D) P
A
B

= P (A)
57. Odds 8 to 5 against a person who is
40 years old living till he is 70 and 4
to 3 against another person now 50
till he will be living 80 . Probability
that one of them will be alive next 30
years, is :
(A)
59
91
(B)
44
91
(C)
51
91
(D)
32
91
58. A die is tossed thrice . A success is
getting a or 6 on a toss . The mean &
the variance of number of successes
(A) = 1,
2
=
2
3
(B) =
2
3
,
2
= 1
(C) = 2,
2
=
2
3
(D) None of these
59. In a certain town, 40% of the people
have brown hair, 25% have brown
eyes and 15% have both brown hair
and brown eyes . If a person selected
at random from the town, has brown
hair, the probability that he also has
brown eyes, is :
(A)
1
5
(B)
3
8
(C)
1
3
(D)
2
3
60. If X follows a binomial distribution
with parameters n = 6 & p and
4

(P

(X = 4)) = P

(X = 2), then p =
(A)
1
2
(B)
1
4
(C)
1
6
(D)
1
3
61. The value of C for which,
P

(X

=

k)

= Ck
2


can serve as the prob.
function of a random variable X, that
takes 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 is :
(A)
1
30
(B)
1
10
(C)
1
3
(D)
1
15
62. For the three events A, B & C, P
(exactly one of the events A or B
occurs = P (exactly one of the events
B or C occurs) = P (exactly one of the
events C or A occurs) = p & P (all the
three events occur simultaneously) =
p
2
, where 0 < p <
1
2
. Then the prob.
of atleast one of the three events A, B
and C occuring, is :
(A)
3 2
2
2
p p +
(B)
p p + 3
4
2
(C)
p p + 3
2
2
(D)
3 2
4
2
p p +
63. A six faced dice is biased that it is
t wi ce as l i kel y t o show an even
number as an odd number when
thrown . It is thrown twice . The
probabi l i t y t hat t he sum of t wo
numbers thrown is even, is :
(A)
1
12
(B)
1
6
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(C)
1
3
(D)
2
3
ANSWERS
1. D 2. B 3. D 4. C 5. D 6. D
7. C 8. B 9. D 10. B 11. B 12.C
13. C 14. B 15. ABC 16. C 17.C
18. B 19. ACD 20. C 21. D 22.B
23. C 24. A 25. A 26. C 27. A 28.C
29. A 30. B 31. D 32. B 33. D 34.B
35. B 36. A 37. D 38. B 39. A 40.B
41. A 42. A 43. A 44. D 45. B 46.C
47. A 48. A 49. B 50. D 51. D 52.D
53.C 54. A 55. B 56. AD 57. B 58.A
59.B 60. D 61. A 62. A 63. D