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1.

1024 people live in a village. 720 speak tamil,562 speak english while 346 speak both the languages. If
a person who does not speack english or tamil, he speaks hindi. What is probibility that a person speak
hindi?
(a) 11/ 128
(b) 88/ 1023
(c) 11/ 1024
(d) 127/ 1024

2.

There are two bags. One bag contains 4 white and 2 black balls. Second bad contains 5 white and 4
black balls. 2 balls are transferred from first bag to the second bag. Then one ball is taken out from the
second bag. The probability that the ball is white is
(a) 42/ 165
(b) 5/ 165
(c) 48/ 165
(d) 19/ 33

3.

A Bag contains P white and Q black balls. Two players A and B alternately draw a ball from the bag,
replacing the balls each time after the draw till one of them draws a white and wins the games. If A begins
the game and the probability of A winning the game is 3 times that of B, then what is the ratio of P : Q?
(a) 3:4
(b) 4:3
(c) 2:1
(d) 1:2

4.

2/3rd of the balls in a bag are blue, the rest are pink. if 5/9th of the blue balls and 7/8th of the pink balls
are defective, find the total number of balls in the bag given that the number of non defective balls is 146.
(a) 216
(b) 649
(c) 432
(d) 578

5.

A letter is chosen at random from the word ASSASSINATION. What is the probability that it is a vowel?
(a) 4/ 13
(b) 8/ 13
(c) 7/ 13
(d) 6/ 13

6.

Probability that a leap year chosen at random will have 53 sundays

(d) 3/ 49

3 dices are thrown. What is the probability that sum ten appears?
(a) 1/ 8
(b) 7/ 216
(c) 3/ 8

(d) 9/ 216

7.

8.

In a chess tournament of 4 games among Anand and Karsproviz, the probability of Anand wining the
game is 2/5. Probability of individual game draw is zero. What is the probability of the series draw?
(a) 432/ 625
(b) 400/ 625
(c) 32/ 125
(d) 301/ 625

9.

Two friends decided to meet at some time between 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. on a certain day at a gym. They didnt
fix the exact time but they agreed that the one who arrived first at the gym, would wait up to 20 minutes
(but no more)for the other person. Assuming that each of them went to the gym at some time between 3
p.m. and 4 p.m, find the probability that they-did not meet that day.
(a) 1/ 3
(b) 2/ 3
(c) 5/ 9
(d) 4/ 9

10. If A speaks the truth 60% of the times, B speaks the truth 50% of the times. What is the probability that
at least one will tell the truth?
(a) 80%
(b) 60%
(c) 50%
(d) 40%
11. There are 20 balls which are red,blue,or green.If 7 balls are green and the sum of red balls and green balls
is less than 13, at most how many red balls are there?
(a) 5
(b) 6
(c) 7
(d) 4
12. If the probability of rain on any given day in pune city is 50% then what is the probability that it rains on
exactly 3 days in a 5 day period?
(a) 5/ 16
(b) 25/ 64
(c) 15/ 64
(d) 3/ 16
13. The probability of rain on Day 1 is 0.2 and on Day 2 is 0.3. What is the probability of raining on both the
days?
(a) 0.2
(b) 0.1
(c) 0.6
(d) 0.25
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14. The letters B, G, I, N and R are rearranged to form the word BRING. Find its probability.
(a) 1/120
(b) 1/54
(c) 1/24
(d) 5/5 x 42
15. A six-sided die with faces numbered 1through 6 is rolled three times. What is the probability that the face
with the number 6 on it will not face upward on all the three rolls?
(a) 1/216
(b) 1/6
(c) 2/3
(d) 216/216
16. A man bets on number 16 on roulette wheel 14 times and loses each time. On the 15th spin, he does a
quick calculation and finds out that the number 12 had appeared twice in the 14 spans and is therefore
unable to decide whether to bet on 16 or 12 in the 15th spin. Which will give him the best chance and what
are the odds of winning on the bet that he takes? (Roulette has numbers 1 to 36).
(a) 16; 22 : 14
(b) 12; 72 : 1
(c) 12; 7 : 1
(d) Either; 35 : 1
17. Badri has 9 pairs of dark blue socks and 9 pairs of black socks. He keep s them all in the same bag. If he
picks out three socks at random, then what is the probability that he will get a matching pair?
(a) (2 9C2 9C1) / 18C3
(b) (9C2 9C1)/18C3
(c) 1
(d) None of these
18. In his wardrobe, Timothy has 3 trousers. One of them is black, the second blue, and the third brown. In
his wardrobe, he also has 4 shirts. One of them is black and the other 3 are white. He opens his wardrobe
in the dark and picks out one shirt-trouser pair, without examining the colour. What is the likelihood that
neither the shirt nor the trouser is black?
(a) 1/12
(b) 1/6
(c) 1/4
(c)
19. A mail-sorting clerk is given 4 envelopes addressed to different people and 4 letters. She has to carefully
put the letters in the correct envelopes and then mail them. However, she carelessly puts any letter in any
envelope. Making sure that each envelope has precisely one of those 4 letters. What is the likelibood that
all the letters are in the correct envelope?
(a) 1/24
(b) 1/12
(c) 1/6
(d) 1/4
20. The probability of raining on day 1 is 0.2 and on day 2 is 0.3. What is the probability of raining on both the
days?
(a) 0.2
(b) 0.1
(c) 0.6
(d) 0.25
21. There are 10 pairs of socks in a drawer. What is the minimum number of socks that a person should pull
out from the drawer to ensure that he gets at least two matching pairs of socks?
(a) 12
(b) 11
(c) 5
(d) 10
7

22. If the probability that A will live 15 years is

and that B will live 15 years is

10

, then what is the pro

bribability that both will live after 15 years ?

(a)

20

63

(b)

80

(c)

1
5

(d) None of these

23. A bag contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue balls. 2 balls are to b drawn randomly. What is probability that
the balls drawn contain no blue ball?
5

10

(a)

(b)

11

(c)

(d)

7
21
7
21
24. I forgot the digit of a 7-digit telephone number. If I randomly dial the final 3 digits after correctly dialing the
first four, then what is the chance of dialing the correct number?
1

(a)

1001

(b)

990

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(c)

999

Bareilly - Civil Lines Branch

(d)

1000