Probability MCQ questions

1. What is the probability that the minute and hour hands of a clock will form an acute angle
at any given time?
A. P > 0.5 B. P = 0.5 C. P < 0.5 D. P ≤ 0.25
2. Two dice are thrown at the same time. Find the probability of getting different values on
both.
3. What is the probability of not picking a king if you choose randomly from a pack of 52
cards?
4. What is the probability of not picking a face card when you draw a card at random from a
pack of 52 cards?
5. 24 cards numbered 1, 2, 3, …., 23, 24 are put in a box and mixed thoroughly. One person
draws a card from the box. The probability that the number on the card is divisible by 2 or 3,
or both is
6. A card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of playing cards. Find the probability of drawing
a black card which is neither a face card nor an ace.
7. A number is chosen randomly among the first 100 natural numbers. Find the probability
that the number chosen is prime.
8.The probability of an event of a trial
A. is greater than 1 B. 0 C. lies between 0 and 1 (both inclusive) D. 1
9. What is the probability of getting all heads or all tails when three coins are tossed
simultaneously?
10. A bag contains 5 red balls and some blue balls. If the probability of drawing a blue ball is
double that of a red ball, then how many blue balls are there in a bag?
11. If two dice are thrown together, what is the probability of getting a total of 8?
12. If P(A) = 0.4 and P(B) = 0.5, what is the probability of both A and B occurring?
A) 0.9 B) 0.2 C) 0.3 D) 0.8
13. If two coins are tossed, what is the probability of getting at least one head?
14. If the probability of an event A is 0.6 and the probability of its complement is 0.4, what
can be said about the event A?
A) It is a sure event B) It is an impossible event C) It is a likely event D) None of the above
15. If a coin is tossed 3 times, what is the probability of getting 2 heads and 1 tail?
16. If P(A) = 0.2 and P(B) = 0.3, what is the probability of A or B occurring?
A) 0.1 B) 0.5 C) 0.4 D) 0.6
17. If two cards are drawn from a deck of 52 cards without replacement, what is the
probability of getting a king on the first draw and a queen on the second draw?
18.If the probability of an event A is 0.4 and the probability of its complement is 0.6, what is
the probability of A and its complement occurring together?
A) 0.2 B) 0.4 C) 0.6 D) 0.8
19. If a coin is tossed 4 times, what is the probability of getting exactly 2 heads?
20. Find the probability that the month of April has 5 Mondays
21. A number is chosen at random from -3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3. What is the probable probability that
the square of the number is less than ot equal to 1
22. The probability that a non leap year has 53 Sundays
23. Which of the following cannot be probability of an event
a)1.5 b)25% c) 0.3 d) 3/5
24. The probability of guessing correct answer is p/12. If the probability of not guessing
correct answer is 1/3 then the value of p is
25. the probability of getting bad eggs in lot of 400 eggs is 0.035. whats the number of bad
eggs ?
26. the probability of getting a doublet in throw of pair of dice is
27. If P(A) denotes the probability of an event then
a)P(A)< 0 b) p(A) >1 c) 0 <= P(A) <=1 d)-1<=P(A)<=1
28. The probability of an impossible event is
29. the probability of a sure event is
30. A game consists of tossing a coin 3 times and noting down the outcomes . If getting the
same result in all the tosses is a success, the probability of losing the game is
31. If a number number is chosen at random from the numbers -3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3, what is the
probability that x2<=4
32. the king, queen and jack of clubs are removed from the deck of 52 cards and remaining
cards are shuffled . The probability of getting a card of queen is
33. 10 defective pens are mixed with 90 good pens.its not possible to lok at the pen and
decide which is defective. One pen is taken out at random from this lot. Determine the
probability that the pen taken out is a good one.
34. The probability of a leap year selected at random contain 53 Sunday is:
35. The sum of the probability of an event and non event is :