PRACTICE QUESTIONS

ZIDD

PROBABILITY
1. If E(x) = K, then E(4x+3) is
(A) 3K + 4
(B) 4K
(C) 4K + 3
(D) K + 3

2. A bag contains 3 white balls and ‘x’ black balls. If the probability of picking two black balls is 2/7, then the value
of x is
(A) 2
(B) 4
(C) 5
(D) 6

3. The are 6 distinct cars parked in the parking area, then the probability that there are exactly 2 cars between two
particular cars is
1
(A)
6
1
(B) 5
2
(C) 7
3
(D) 5

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4. Find the expected value of the following probability distribution
X 5 10 20 30 35
P(x) 3/20 1/5 1/2 1/10 1/20
(A) 17.5
(B) 15.75
(C) 20.25
(D) None of these

5. The odds in favour that Dhoni will be seleced in the team are 5: 2. The same for Rohit and Kohli are 2: 1 and Kohli
is 3: 2, then the probability that exactly two out of the three get selected is
53
(A) 105
34
(B) 105
47
(C) 105
62
(D)
105

6. A card is picked randomly from a deck of cards. What is the probability that it is a face card given that it is a Red
card?
(A) 1/13
(B) 3/13
(C) 2/13
(D) 4/13

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7. There are 4 odd numbers and 6 even numbers. Four numbers are selected at random without replacement and
multiplied. Find the probability that the product is even
109
(A)
210
209
(B) 210
103
(C) 210

(D) None of these

8. Let S be the sum of two numbers obtained in a single throw of two dice. The probability that ‘S’ is a prime
number is
(A) 5/12
(B) 7/12
(C) 5/6
(D) 1/6

9. A coin in tossed 7 times, then odds that the head appears odd number of times is
(A) 1:2
(B) 2:1
(C) 1:1
(D) 3:4

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10. If A and B are two independent events and P(A) = and 𝑃(𝐴 ∪ 𝐵) = , then P(B) =
3 6
1
(A) 2
3
(B)
5
3
(C)
4
2
(D)
3

1 2 11 A
11. If P(A) = , P(B) = , 𝑃 (𝐴 ∪ 𝐵) = then P ( ′ ) =
2 3 12 𝐵
3
(A)
4
7
(B) 12
5
(C) 12
1
(D)
4

12. The probability that the leap year will have 53 Sundays or 53 Saturdays is
1
(A) 7
2
(B)
7
3
(C) 7
5
(D) 7

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13. In a class 40% students study Mathematics, 25% Biology and 15% both Mathematics and Biology. One student is
selected at random. The probability that he studies Mathematics, if it is known that he studies Biology is
(A) 1/5
(B) 2/5
(C) 4/5
(D) None of these

14. If E(x2) = 19.5 and E(x) = 4.2, then Coefficient of variation is

(A) 44.65
(B) 59.11
(C) 32.47
(D) 26.66

15. If P(A′B′) = 1/5, Find P(B), if P(A) = 2/3 and A and B are mutually exclusive
(A) 4/15
(B) 7/12
(C) 2/15
(D) None of these

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16. If P(A) = 0.65 and P(B) = 0.40, then P(only one happens) =
(A) 0.53
(B) 0.95
(C) 0.79
(D) 0.66

17. If all the possible arrangements of the letters of the word PATROITIC are written down and a word is chosen at
random, what’s the probability that in that word all the consonants will be together?
(A) 11/84
(B) 5/126
(C) 21/85
(D) 1/6

18. Out of 5 men and 4 women a committee of 3 men and 3 women has to be formed. What are the chances that
committee will always include one particular man and exclude one particular women
(A) 0.24
(B) 0.15
(C) 0.33
(D) 0.50

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19. From a set of first 120 natural numbers a number is selected at random, what are the chances that its neither
divisible by 3 nor by 7?
(A) 0.22
(B) 0.35
(C) 0.42
(D) 0.57

20. Two dice are rolled. What is the probability the difference betwwen the two numbers on the face of dice is a
prime number?
(A) 4/9
(B) 5/12
(C) 11/36
(D) 1/3

ANSWER KEY

1 C 2 B 3 B 4 A 5 C

6 B 7 B 8 A 9 C 10 C

11 A 12 C 13 D 14 C 15 C

16 A 17 B 18 B 19 D 20 A

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 Speed Test

1. A machine is made of two parts A and B. The manufacturing process of each part is
such that probability of defective in part A is 0.08 and that B is 0.05. What is the
probability that the assembled part will not have any defect?
(A) 0.934 (B) 0.864 (C) 0.85 (D) 0.874

2. If P(A)=1/3, P(B) = 3/4 and P(AB)= 11/12 then P(B/A) is :

(A) 1/6 (B) 4/9 (C) 1/2 (D) 1/8

3. The probability that a leap year has 53 Monday is:

(A) 1/7 (B) 2/3 (C) 2/7 (D) 3/5

4. Suppose A and B are two independent events with probabilities P(A) ≠ 0 and P(B) ≠
0. Let A' and B' be their complements. Which one of the following statements is
FALSE?
(A) P(A∩B)= P(A)P(B) (B) P(A/B)=P(A)
(C) P(AUB)=P(A) + P(B) (D) P(A'∩B')=P(A') P(B')

5. The Theorem of Compound Probability states that for any two events A and B.
(A) P(A∩B)=P(A)×P(B/A) (B) P(A∪B)=P(A)×P(B/A)
(C) P(A∩B)=P(A)×P(B) (D) P(A∪B)=P(A) + P(B)-P(A∩B)

6. If a number is selected at random from the first 50 natural numbers, what will be the
probability that the selected number is a multiple of 3 and 4?
(A) 5/50 (B) 2/25 (C) 3/50 (D) 4/25

7. If three coins are tossed simultaneously, what is the probability of getting two heads
together?
(A) 1/4 (B) 1/8 (C) 5/8 (D) 3/8

8. If P(A)=1/2 and P(B)=1/3 and P(A∪B)=2/3 then find P(A∩B)

(A) 1/4 (B) 2/3 (C) 1/6 (D) 1/2

9. If six coins are tossed simultaneously. The probability of obtaining exactly two heads
is
(A) 0.2343 (B) 0.9841 (C) 0.1268 (D) 0.0156

10. A box contain 20 electrical bulbs out of which 4 are defective. Two bulbs are chosen
at random from this box. The probability that at least one of them being defective is
(A) 7/19 (B) 4/19 (C) 12/19 (D) 15/19

11. If a card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards, what is the chance of getting a
Club or a King?
(A) 13/52 (B) 4/52 (C) 17/52 (D) 16/52

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12. A number is selected from the first 30 natural numbers. What is the probability that
it would be divisible by 3 or 8?
(A) 0.2 (B) 0.4 (C) 0.6 (D) 0.8

13. If P(A∩B) = 1/3 , P(A∪B) = 5/6 , P(B)= 1/2 , then P(A) is :

(A) 2/3 (B) 1/3 (C) 1/4 (D) 3/4

14. A number is selected at random from the first 100 natural numbers. What is the
probability that it would be a multiple of 3 or 7?
(A) 33/100 (B) 4/100 (C) 21/100 (D) 43/100

15. Company 'A' produces 10% defective products, company ‘B’ produces 20% defective
products and company 'C' produces 5% defective products. If choosing a company is
an equally likely event, then what is probability that product chosen is free from
defect?
(A) 0.88 (B) 0.80 (C) 0.79 (D) 0.78

16. The probability distribution of x is given below:

Value of x: 1 0 Total
Probability: p 1–p 1
Mean is equal to
(A) p (B) 1 – p (C) 0 (D) 1

17. For any two events ‘A’ and ‘B’ it is known that P(A) = 2/3, P(B) = 3/8 and P(AB) =
1/4, then the events A and B are:
(A) Mutually exclusive and Independent
(B) Mutually not exclusive and Independent
(C) Mutually exclusive but not independent
(D) Neither independent nor mutually exclusive

18. If a random variable X has the following probability distribution, then the expected
value of X is:
X –1 –2 0 1 2
1 1 1 1 1
P(x)
3 6 5 6 3

(A) 3/2 (B) 1/2 (C) 1/3 (D) 1/6

19. The probability that a four digit number comprising the digits 2, 5, 6 and 7, without
repetition of digits, would be divisible by 4 is
(A) 1/2 (B) 3/4 (C) 1/4 (D) 1/3

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20. On a commodity exchange when booking trades with provision for stop-losses, a
trader can make a profit of ₹ 50,000 or incur a loss of ₹ 20,000. The probabilities of
making profit and incurring loss, from the past experience, are known to be 0.75 and
0.25 respectively. The expected profit to be made by trader should be
(A) ₹ 32,500 (B) ₹35,000 (C) ₹ 30,000 (D) ₹ 40,000

21. Four persons are chosen at random from a group of 3 men, 2 women and 4 children.
The probability that exactly 2 of them are children, is
(A) 10/21 (B) 1/12 (C) 1/5 (D) 1/9

22. If P(A)= 1/3 , P(B)= 1/4 , P(A/B)= 1/6 , the probability P (B⁄A) is
(A) 1/8 (B) 1/4 (C) 3/8 (D) 1/2

23. A random variable has the following probability distribution:

X: 2 3 5
P: K 2K 2K
Find K.
(A) 1/3 (B) 2/5 (C) 1/5 (D) 2/3

24. A number is selected at random from the set {1, 2, ….., 99}. The probability that it is
divisible by 9 or 11 is ___________
(A) 19/100 (B) 19/99 (C) 10/100 (D) 10/99

25. Two coins are tossed. Define the events A = {“the first toss is head”}, A1 = {number
of heads is 2}; A2 = {number of heads is 1}; A3 = {number of heads is 0} and A4 =
{“both outcomes are alike”}. The event A is independent of ____________.
(A) A1 (B) A2 (C) A3 (D) A1 and A2 both

26. The following table gives the cumulative probability function of X:

X: 0 1 2 3 4 5
P(X): 6/30 5/30 13/30 1/15 1/10 1/30
The expectation of X is ___________
(A) 1.8 (B) 1.7 (C) 1.5 (D) 1.6

27. From a bag containing 4 red, 5 blue and 6 white caps, two caps are drawn without
replacement. What is the probability that the caps are of different colours?
(A) 74/105 (B) 37/105 (C) 94/105 (D) 31/105

28. A question in statistics is given to three students A, B and C. Their chances of solving
the question are 1/3, 1/5 and 1/7 respectively. The probability that the question
would be solved is
(A) 19/35 (B) 16/35 (C) 1/105 (D) 104/105

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29. A company produces two types of products, A and B the probability of a defective
product in type A is 0.05 and in type B is 0.03. If the company produces 60% type A
and 40% type B. What is the probability of a randomly selected product being
defective?
(A) 0.042 (B) 0.03 (C) 0.048 (D) 0.052

30. If A and B are mutually exclusive events, then

(A) P (A  B) = P(A)P(B) (B) P(A  B) = P(A) + P(B)
(C) P (A  B) = P(A) + P(B) (D) P(A  B) = P(A)P(B)

31. Which of the following pairs of events are mutually exclusive?

(A) A: The student studies in a school.
B: He studies Geography.
(B) A: Archna was born in India.
B: She is a fine lawyer.
(C) A: Sita is 16 years old.
B: She is a good folk dancer.
(D) A: Imran is under 15 years of age.
B: He is a voter of Delhi.

32. Which one holds correct for any two events A and B?
(A) P(A-B)=P(A)-P(B) (B) P(A-B)=P(A) - P(Α∩Β)
(C) P(A-B)=P(B) - P(A∩B) (D) P(A-B)=P(B) + Р(А∩В)

33. Two cards are drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. The probability of getting
either both the red cards or both Kings cards is:
(A) 0.2488 (B) 0.4288 (C) 0.8248 (D) 0.8428

34. The probability of success of three students in CA Foundation examination are 1/5,
1/4 and 1/3 respectively. Find the probability that at least two students will get
success.
(A) 2/5 (B) 3/4 (C) 1/6 (D) 1/5

35. If P(A)=0.65 and P(B) = 0.15, then P(A) + P(B) is:

(A) 1.5 (B) 1.2 (C) 0.8 (D) 0.35

36. Eight labourers are working at a construction site with the following wages for each
day of working (in ₹): 500, 620, 400, 700, 450, 560, 320, 450
If one of the workers is selected at random, what is the probability that his wage
would be less than the average wage?
(A) 0.625 (B) 0.375 (C) 0.500 (D) 0.450

37. A box contains shoe pairs of same pattern of different sizes numbered from 1 to 12. If
a shoe pair is selected at random, what is the probability that the number on the shoe
pair will be a multiple of 5 or 6?
(A) 0.33 (B) 0.25 (C) 0.20 (D) 0,375

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 Answer Key – Speed Test

1 D 2 C 3 C 4 C 5 A

6 B 7 A 8 C 9 A 10 A

11 D 12 B 13 B 14 D 15 A

16 A 17 B 18 D 19 D 20 A

21 A 22 A 23 C 24 B 25 B

26 A 27 A 28 A 29 A 30 C

31 D 32 B 33 A 34 C 35 B

36 C 37 A

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