Question 1.

(c) 1
A card is selected at random from a deck of 52 (d) 0
cards. The probability of its being a red face card is Answer: (b) between 0 and 1 (both inclusive)
(a) 3/13
(b) 1/2 Question 7.
(c) 2/13 A standard deck of 52 cards is shuffled. One card is
(d) 3/26 drawn at random. The probability that the card is
Answer: (d) 3/26 red or an ace is
(a) 7/13
Question 2. (b) 5/15
An unbiased dice is thrown. What is the (c) 13/17
probability of getting an even number or a (d) 2/13
multiple of 3? Answer: (a) 7/13
(a) 3/2
(b) 2/3 Question 8.
(c) 5/4 Gugu throws a die once. The probability that she
(d) 4/3 shows a number less than 5 is:
Answer: (a) 3/2 (a) 2/3
(b) 1/3
Question 3. (c) 1/6
What is the probability that a leap year has 53 (d) 5/3
Sundays? Answer: (a) 2/3
(a) 7/8
(b) 4/5 Question 9.
(c) 2/3 The maximum probability of an event of a trial is:
(d) 2/7 (a) 0
Answer: (d) 2/7 (b) 1
(c) Lies between 0 and 1.
Question 4. (d) -1
Probability of boy that he will get married with his Answer: (b) 1
girlfriend is 2/7 then probability that he will not
get married will be: Question 10.
(a) 5/7 A and B throw a pair of dice. If A throws 9, then B’s
(b) 7/2 chance of throwing a higher number is
(c) 2/7 (a) 1/6
(d) 7/10 (b) 1/9
Answer: (a) 5/7 (c) 1/3
(d) 2/9
Question 5. Answer: (a) 1/6
In a football match, a player hits 8 goals out of 60
balls. Find the probability that the player did not Question 11.
hit the goal. The probability of an impossible event is
(a) 11/15 (a) more than 1
(b) 4/5 (b) less than 1
(c) 8/15 (c) 1
(d) 13/15 (d) 0
Answer: (d) 13/15 Answer: (d) 0

Question 6. Question 12.

The probability of an event of a trial is always Three unbiased coins are tossed together. The
(a) more than 1 probability of getting at least two heads is
(b) between 0 and 1 (both inclusive) (a) 3/8
(b) 1/2

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(c) 1/8 Question 18.
(d) 1 Two unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously.
Answer: (b) 1/2 The probability of getting at most one head is
(a) 5/4
Question 13. (b) 1/4
The probability of getting 53 Sundays in a leap (c) 3/4
year is (d) 2/3
(a) 2/7 Answer: (c) 3/4
(b) 3/7
(c) 7/3 Question 19.
(d) 1/7 A die is thrown 300 times and odd numbers are
Answer: (a) 2/7 obtained 153 times. Then, the probability of
getting an even number is
Question 14. (a) 174/300
In a simultaneous throw of a pair of dice, the (b) 147/300
probability of getting a sum more than 7 will be (c) 147/153
(a) 5/12 (d) 153/300
(b) 13/12 Answer: (b) 147/300
(c) 7/12
(d) 9/12 Question 20.
Answer: (a) 5/12 The sum of the probabilities of All events of a trial
is
Question 15. (a) 1
Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the (b) between 0 and 1
probability of getting at most two heads? (c) less than 1
(a) 7/8 (d) greater than 1
(b) 3/4 Answer: (b) between 0 and 1
(c) 5/6
(d) 3/2 Question 21.
Answer: (a) 7/8 One card is drawn at random from a pack of 52
cards. What is the probability that the card drawn
Question 16. is either a red card or a king?
Which one of the following cannot be the (a) 6/13
probability of an event? (b) 1/2
(a) 2/3 (c) 7/13
(b) −1/6 (d) 27/52
(c) 0 Answer: (c) 7/13
(d) 1
Answer: (b) −1/6 Question 22.
In a series of 6 cricket matches, the number of runs
Question 17. scored by the captain of a team are 54, 32, 48, 55,
Two unbiased coins are tossed. What is probability 29, 35. So in the next match, the probability that he
of getting at most one tail? will cross the half century is
(a) 1/2 (a) 0.33
(b) 1/3 (b) 0.24
(c) 1/4 (c) 0.35
(d) 3/4 (d) 0.48
Answer: (d) 3/4 Answer: (a) 0.33

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