FIITJEE COIMBATORE CENTRE
10 – MATHEMATICS – MVTL
1. A dice is thrown. Find the probability of getting an even number.
(A) 2/3 (B) 1 (C) 5/6 (D) 1/2
2. What are the chances that no two boys are sitting together for a photograph if there are 5 girls
and 2 boys?
(A) 1/21 (B) 4/7 (C) 2/7 (D) 5/7
3. What is probability of drawing two clubs from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards?
(A) 13/51 (B) 1/17 (C) 1/26 (D) 13/17
4. When two coins are tossed simultaneously, what are the chances of getting at least one tail?
(A) ¾ (B) 1/5 (C) 4/5 (D) 1/4
5. 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
6. 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
7. What is the possibility of having 53 Thursdays in a non-leap year?
(A) 5/7 (B) 1/7 (C) 2/7 (D) 53/365
8. On rolling a dice 2 times, if the sum of 2 numbers that appear on the uppermost face is 8. What is
the probability that the first throw of dice yields 4?
(A) 2/36 (B) 1/36 (C) 1/6 (D) 1/5
9. In a set of 30 game cards, 17 are white and rest are green. 4 white and 5 green are marked
IMPORTANT. If a card is chosen randomly from this set, what is the possibility of choosing a
green card or an ‘IMPORTANT’ card?
(A) 13/30 (B) 22/30 (C) 17/30 (D) 9/13
10. 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) 1/2
11. 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
12. A box has 6 black, 4 red, 2 white and 3 blue shirts. When 2 shirts are picked randomly, what is
the probability that either both are white or both are blue?
(A) 4/105 (B) 1/35 (C) 1/105 (D) 1/15
13. What will be the possibilitLy of drawing a jack or a spade from a well shuffled standard deck of 52
playing cards?
(A) 4/13 (B) 1/26 (C) 1/13 (D) 17/52
14. Suresh keeps all his socks in a single drawer. He has 24 pairs of white socks and 18 pairs of grey
socks. Suresh picks 3 socks randomly. Find the possibility of Suresh choosing a matching pair.
(A) 1/36 (B) 1/108 (C) 7/36 (D) 1
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. Two dice are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability that the total is a prime number.
(A) 7/9 (B) 5/12 (C) 1/6 (D) 5/9
19. A class consists of 15 girls and 10 boys. Three students are to be randomly selected. Find the
probability that one boy and two girls are picked.
(A) 1/50 (B) 3/25 (C) 21/46 (D) 25/122
20. A dice is rolled twice. What is the probability of getting sum 9?
(A) 2/3 (B) 1/3 (C) 1/9 (D) 3/9
21. A box has 10 black and 10 white balls. What is the probability of getting two balls of the same
color?
(A) 10/19 (B) 9/38 (C) 9/19 (D) 5/38
22. Three coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most two tails?
(A) 7/8 (B) 1/8 (C) 2/8 (D) 4/8
23. A person can go from place “P” to “Q” by 7 different modes of transport, but is allowed to return
back to “P” by any mode other than the one used earlier. In how many different ways can he
complete the entire journey?
(A) 42 (B) 30 (C) 5^6 (D) 6^5
24. How many words can be formed by using all letters of word ALIVE.
(A) 86 (B) 95 (C) 105 (D) 120
25. How many 3-letter words can be formed out of the letters of the word ‘CORPORATION’, if
repetition of letters is not allowed?
(A) 990 (B) 336 (C) 720 (D) 504
26. In how many ways can the letters of the word INDIA be arranged, such that all vowels are never
together?
(A) 48 (B) 42 (C) 28 (D) 36
27. A bank has 6 digit account number with no repetition of digits within a account number. The first
and last digit of the account numbers is fixed to be 4 and 7. How many such account numbers
are possible?
(A) 10080 (B) 5040 (C) 890 (D) 1680
28. The probability that a prime number selected at random from the numbers (1,2,3, ..........35) is :
(A) 12/35 (B) 11/35 (C) 13/35 (D) none of these
29. The probability that it will rain tomorrow is 0.85. What is the probability that it will not rain
tomorrow
(A) 0.25 (B) 0.145 (C) 3/20 (D) none of these
30. The following probabilities are given; choose the correct answer for that which is not possible.
(A) 0.15 (B) 2/7 (C) 7/5 (D) none of these
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