1. What is the probability of an impossible event?

a) 1
b) 0
c) Insufficient data
d) Not defined
2. Two unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most one head?
a) 3⁄4
b) 1⁄6
c) 1⁄3
d) 1⁄2
3. 3. Who provided the definition for probability?
a) Archimedes
b) Einstein
c) Euclid
d) Simon Laplace
4. A bag contains 5 green and 3 blue balls. Two balls are picked at random. What is the
probability that both are of the same colour?
5. Company A produces 10% defective products, Company B produces 20% defective
products and C produces 5% defective products. If choosing a company is an
equally likely event, then find the probability that the product chosen is defective.
a) 0.11
b) 0.21
c) 0.22
d) 0.12
6. A problem in mathematics is given to three students A, B and C. If the probability of
A solving the problem is 1⁄2 and B not solving it is 1⁄4. The whole probability of the
problem being solved is 63⁄64 then what is the probability C of solving it?
a) 1⁄2
b) 7⁄8
c) 1⁄64
d) 1⁄8
7. The probability that at least one of the events Q and R occur is 0.6. If Q and R have
probability of occurring together as 0.2, then P(Q) + P(R) is?
a) 1.2
b) 0.8
c) 0.4
d) Indeterminate
8. Let there be two newly launched phones A and B. The probability that phone A has
good battery life is 0.7 and the probability that phone B has a good battery life is 0.8.
Then find the probability that a phone has good battery life.
a) 0.45
b) 0.85
c) 0.75
d) 0.65
9. In a discrete probability distribution, the sum of all probabilities is always?
a) 1
b) 0
c) Undefined
d) Infinite
10. . What is the probability of a sure event?
a) 1
b) 0
c) 1/4
d) ½
11. In a bucket there are 5 blue, 15 yellow, and 25 orange balls. If the ball is picked up
randomly, find the probability that it is neither yellow nor blue?
12. In a bucket there are 5 purple, 15 grey and 25 green balls. If the ball is picked up
randomly, find the probability that it is neither grey nor purple?
13. What is the probability of getting a number greater than 6 on dice?
a) 1
b) 1/3
c) 1/2
d) 0
14. A number is selected from the first 20 natural numbers. Find the probability that it
would be divisible by 3 or 7?
15. The probability that person A completes all the tasks assigned is 50% and that of
person B is 20%. Find the probability that all the tasks are completed.
a) 0.35
b) 0.45
c) 0.15
d) 0.25
16. Which of the following cannot be the value of probability?
a) 1/2
b) 0
c) -1
d) 1
17. A fair coin is tossed thrice, what is the probability of getting all 3 same outcomes?
a) 1⁄4
b) 3⁄4
c) 1⁄6
d) 1⁄2
18. If P(E) = 0.07, then what is the probability of ‘not E’?
(a) 0.93
(b) 0.95
(c) 0.89
(d) 0.90
19. A bag has 3 red balls and 5 green balls. If we take a ball from the bag, then what is the
probability of getting red balls only?
(a) 3
(b) 8
(c) ⅜
(d) 8/3
20. A bag has 5 white marbles, 8 red marbles and 4 purple marbles. If we take a marble
randomly, then what is the probability of not getting purple marble?
(a) 0.5
(b) 0.66
(c) 0.08
(d) 0.77
21. A dice is thrown in the air. The probability of getting odd numbers is
(a) ½
(b) 3/2
(c) 3
(d) 4
22. If we throw two coins in the air, then the probability of getting both tails will be:
(a) ½
(b) ¼
(c) 2
(d) 4
23. If two dice are thrown in the air, the probability of getting sum as 3 will be
(a) 2/18
(b) 3/18
(c) 1/18
(d) 1/36
24. A fish tank has 5 male fish and 8 female fish. The probability of fish taken out is a
male fish:
(a) 5/8
(b) 5/13
(c) 13/5
(d) 5
25. The sum of the probabilities of all the elementary events of an experiment is
 (a) 0.5
(b) 1
(c) 2
(d) 1.5
26. If an event cannot occur, then its probability is
(a) 1
(b) 3/4
(c) 1/2
(d) 0
27. If P(A) denotes the probability of an event A, then
(a) P(A) < 0
(b) P(A) > 1
(c) 0 ≤ P(A) ≤ 1
(d) –1 ≤ P(A) ≤ 1
28. If the probability of an event is p, the probability of its complementary event will be
(a) p – 1
(b) p
(c) 1 – p
(d) 1 – 1/p
29. The probability of getting a bad egg in a lot of 400 is 0.035. The number of bad eggs in
the lot is
(a) 7
(b) 14
(c) 21
(d) 28
30. Two players, Sangeeta and Reshma, play a tennis match. It is known that the
probability of Sangeeta winning the match is 0.62. The probability of Reshma winning
the match is
(a) 0.62
(b) 0.38
(c) 0.58
(d) 0.42

31.If you rolled a 6-sided dice, what is the probability of rolling a 3?

A.
 1/6

B.

2/3

C.

3/6

D.

5/6
32. If you flipped 2 coins, what is the probability that both will land on
tails?

A.

2/4

B.

3/4

C.

1/4

D.

0/4
33.
If you rolled a 6-sided dice, what is the probability of rolling a even
number?

A.

2/6

B.

3/6

C.

4/6
 D.

5/6
34. A lolly bag contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue gum balls. What is the
probability of selecting a green one?

A.

2/7

B.

5/7

C.

4/7

D.

3/7
35. If you flipped a coin, what is the probability it will land on heads?

A.

0/2

B.

1/4

C.

3/4

D.

1/2
36. There are red, yellow and green lollipops in a bag. What is the
probability of selecting a blue one?

A.

1/4

B.
 1

C.

0/3

D.

2/3
37. When two coins are tossed simultaneously, what are the chances of getting at
least one tail?
a. 3/4
b. 1/5
c. 4/5
d. 1/4
38. In a drawer there are 4 white socks, 3 blue socks and 5 grey socks. Two socks
are picked randomly. What is the possibility that both the socks are of same
color?

a. 4/11
b. 1
c. 2/33
d. 19/66
39. In a drawer there are 5 black socks and 3 green socks. Two socks are picked
randomly one after the other without replacement. What is the possibility that
both the socks are black?
a. 5/14
b. 5/8
c. 3/8
d. 5/16
40. A box has 6 black, 4 red, 2 white and 3 blue shirts. Find the probability of
drawing 2 black shirts if they are picked randomly?
a. 1/8
b. 2/15
c. 6/15
d. 1/7
41. There are 2 pots. One pot has 5 red and 3 green marbles. Other has 4 red and
2 green marbles. What is the probability of drawing a red marble?
a. 9/14
b. 31/48
c. 1
d. ½
42. A pot has 2 white, 6 black, 4 grey and 8 green balls. If one ball is picked
randomly from the pot, what is the probability of it being black or green?
a. 3/4
b. 7/10
c. 4/3
d. 1/10
43. Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at least 2
tails?
a. 0.75
b. 0.5
c. 0.25
d. 0.2
44. Two friends A and B apply for a job in the same company. The chances of A
getting selected is 2/5 and that of B is 4/7. What is the probability that both of
them get selected?
a. 8/35
b. 34/35
c. 27/35
d. None of these
45. Tickets numbered 1 to 50 are mixed and one ticket is drawn at random. Find
the probability that the ticket drawn has a number which is a multiple of 4 or 7?
a. 9/25
b. 9/50
c. 18/25
d. None of these

46.In a simultaneous throw of a pair of dice, find the probability of

A) 3/2 B) 4/7 C) 5/12 D) 6/13

47. A bag contains 6 white and 4 black balls. two balls are drawn at
random. Find the probability that they are of the same color.

A) 3/4 B) 5/3 C) 7/15 D) 8/17

48. Two dice are thrown together. What is the probability that the sum
of the numbers on the two faces is divisible by 4 or 6?
A) 13/14 B) 5/3 C) 7/16 D) 7/18

49. Two dice are tossed. the probability that a total score is a prime
number is:

A) 1/6 B) 5/12 C) 1/2 D) 7/9

50. The probability of getting exactly one head in tossing a pair of coins is
(a) 0
(b) 1
(c) 1/3
(d)1/2

51. The probability of getting less than 3 in a single throw of a die is

52. Which of the following can be the probability of an event?

53.Three coins are tossed simultaneously. The probability of getting all heads
is

54.The chance of throwing 5 with an ordinary die is

56.