PROBABILITY QUESTION’S ASKED IN IACE

SSC CGL TIER II MOCK TEST (MT - 1 TO 62)

1. In a row of 5 chairs, how many ways can 3 people sit What is the probability that first two cards are kings
if they want to sit together? and the third card drawn is an ace?
a) 36 b) 24 c) 72 d) 64 1 𝟐
a) 5525 b) 𝟓𝟓𝟐𝟓
2. The probability that a card drawn from a pack of 52
cards will be a diamond or a king, is 3 4
1 1 2 𝟒 c) 5525 d) 5525
a) 13 b) 52 c) 13 d) 𝟏𝟑
3 14. There are 7 players, out of which 4 are boys and 3 are
3. If A and B are events with P(A) = , P(B) = girls. A team contain 5 players. Find the probability
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1 1
and P(A ∩ B) = . Find P(A ̅∩B ̅). that team contain at least 2 girls.
2 4
a) 1/35 b) 3/70 c) 6/7 d) 1/30
a) 1/8 b) 7/8 c) 3/8 d) 5/8
15. Sudarshan and Abraham appeared for interviews for
4. The probabilities of solving a problem by three
3 5 1 two vacancies. The probability of Sudarshan’s
students A, B and C are 7 , 9 and 5, respectively. The selection is 1/3 and the probability of Abraham’s
probability that problem will be solved is; selection is 1/5. Find the probability that none of
64 155 𝟐𝟓𝟏 148 them is selected.
a) 315 b) 315 c) 𝟑𝟏𝟓 d) 315
a) 8/15 b) 14/15 c) 1/15 d) 7/15
5. Four persons are chosen at random from a group of 3
16. A basket contains 4 red, 5 blue and 3 green marbles.
men, 2 women and 4 children. The chance that
If three marbles are picked up at random what is the
exactly 2 of them are children, is
1 1 1 𝟏𝟎 probability that at least one is blue?
a) 5 b) 9 c) 12 d) 𝟐𝟏 5 7 7 𝟑𝟕
a) b) c) d)
6. Two dice are tossed. The probability that the total 12 12 44 𝟒𝟒
17. One card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards, each of
score is a prime number is:
the 52 cards being equally likely to be drawn. Find
a) 1/6 b) 5/12 c) 1/2 d) 7/9
the probability that the card drawn is a red face card?
7. Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52 3 1 1 𝟑
cards. What is the probability that one is club and one a) 25 b) 25 c) 26 d) 𝟐𝟔
is diamond? 18. Two players A and B play an arcade video game. It is
13 1 known that the probability of A winning the game is
a) b)
51 52
𝟏𝟑 1 0.62. What is the probability of B winning the game?
c) 𝟏𝟎𝟐 d) 26 31 81 𝟏𝟗 69
a) 50 b) 50 c) 𝟓𝟎 d) 50
8. A and B are two events such that, P(A) = 0.42, P(B) =
19. Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52 cards
0.48 and P(A ∩ B) = 0.16. Find P(A) a random. What is the probability that both the cards
a) 0.58 b) 0.74 c) 0.26 d) 0.48 are diamonds?
9. If A and B are events with P(A) = 1/3, P(B) = 1/6, a) 1/16 b) 3/52 c) 1/442 d) 1/17
P(A ∩ B) = 1/4, then find P(A ∩ B). 20. A coin is tossed 5 times one after the other. Find the
a) 2/3 b) 1/3 c) 3/4 d) 1/6 probability of getting at least 2 heads?
10. Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the a) 1/4 b) 13/16 c) 1/2 d) 1/5
probability of getting at most two heads? 21. When two coins are tossed simultaneously what are
1 3 3 𝟕
a) 4 b) 4 c) 8 d) 𝟖 the chances of getting at least one tail?
11. An urn contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue balls. Two a) 3/4 b) 1/5 c) 4/5 d) 1/4
balls are drawn at random. What is the probability that 22. Four balls are drawn at random from a bag containing
none of the balls drawn is blue? 5 white, 4 green and 3 black balls. The probability that
𝟏𝟎 11 2 5 exactly two of them are white is
a) 𝟐𝟏 b) 21 c) 7 d) 7
a) 14/33 b) 7/16 c) 18/33 d) 9/16
12. One card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 23. One card is drawn from each of two ordinary packs
cards. If each outcome is equally likely, calculate the of 52 cards. The probability that at-least one of them
probability that the card will not be a diamond: is an ace of hearts is?
1 1 9 𝟑 1 𝟏𝟎𝟑 5 2601
a) b) c) d) a) 2704 b) 𝟐𝟕𝟎𝟒 c) 52 d) 2704
4 2 8 𝟒
13. Three cards are drawn successively, without
replacement from a pack of 52 well shuffled cards.
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24. Two letters selected from the word ‘TENDULKAR’. 36. The probability of getting 4 heads in 8 thrown of a
The probability that both are vowels is: coin, is?
2 𝟏 5 5 1 𝟑𝟓 35 51
a) 9 b) 𝟏𝟐 c) 9 d) 12 a) 2 b) 𝟏𝟐𝟖 c) 64 d) 28
25. A, B & C appear in an examination. Probabilities of 37. Five salesmen, A, B, C, D and E, of a company are
A, B & C getting selected are respectively 1/5, 1/4 considered for a three member trade delegation to
and 1/3. Find the probability that none of them will be represent the company at an international trade
selected. conference. What is the probability that A gets
a) 1/3 b) 19/60 selected?
c) 1/2 d) 2/5 1 𝟑 2 4
a) 5 b) 𝟓 c) 5 d) 5
26. A coin is tossed 3 times. Find the probability of
38. Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a
getting exactly 1 head?
ticket is drama at random. What is the probability that
a) 3/8 b) 5/8 c) 1/8 d) 1/4
the ticket drawn has a number which a multiple of 3
27. In an entrance test that is graded on the basis of two
or 5?
examinations, the probability of a randomly chosen 1 2 8 𝟗
student passing the first examination is 0.8 and the a) b) c) d)
2 5 15 𝟐𝟎
probability of passing the second examination is 0.7. 39. In a single throw of a pair of dice, the probability of
The probability of passing atleast one of them is 0.95. getting the sum a perfect square is?
What is the probability of passing both? 1 𝟕 1 2
a) 18 b) 𝟑𝟔 c) 6 d) 9
a) 0.65 b) 0.55 c) 0.50 d) 0.60
40. A box contains 13 black and 13 white balls. What is
28. A problem in mathematics is given to 4 students A,
the probability of drawing two balls of the same
B, C and D. Their chances of solving the problem are
colour?
1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5 respectively. What is the probability 151 145
that the problem will be solved? a) 260 b) 272
a) 1/5 b) 4/5 c) 2/5 d) 3/5 𝟏𝟓𝟔 161
c) d)
29. Two cards are drawn at random from a pack of 52 𝟑𝟐𝟓 292
41. Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52
cards. What is the probability that either both are
cards. The probability that one card is a spade and the
black or both are kings?
other is a heart, is:
a) 55/221 b) 57/221 3 29 47 𝟏𝟑
c) 166/221 d) 85/221 a) b) c) d)
20 34 100 𝟏𝟎𝟐
30. There are 8 green balls, 19 orange balls and 13 pink 42. Find the probability that a leap year selected at
balls, in a bag. If 3 balls are drawn one after another random will contain 53 Sundays.
without replacement then find the value of probability 2 𝟐 2 1
a) b) c) d)
5 𝟕 3 4
of getting a green on first draw, a pink ball on second 43. A bag contains 7 red, 5 green and 6 blue balls. Three
draw and a orange ball in 3rd draw. balls are drawn one by one at random without
4 7 3 𝟏
a) 30 b) 15 c) 8 d) 𝟑𝟎 replacement. Find the probability that the first ball is
31. A pair of fair dice are thrown. What is the probability red, second ball is green and third ball is blue?
31 𝟑𝟓 33 34
that the sum of the numbers on both the dice is 5? a) 512 b) 𝟖𝟏𝟔 c) 713 d) 812
𝟏 1 5 1
a) 𝟗 b) 36 c) 36 d) 6 44. Indhu and Munkud appear for an interview for two
32. A box contains 5 green, 4 yellow and 3 white marbles. vacancies in the same post. The probability of Indhu’s
3 2
Three marbles are drawn at random. What is the selection is 8 and that of Munkud’s selection is 5 .
probability that they are of the same colour? Find the probability that at least one of them is
13 23 11 𝟑
a) 34 b) 49 c) 21 d) 𝟒𝟒 selected.
𝟓 9 3 1
33. In a class, there are 15 boys and 10 girls. Three a) b) c) d)
𝟖 20 40 4
students are selected at random. The probability that 45. If 9 students are standing on a circular path, then the
1 girl and 2 boys are selected is: probability that 2 of them are always standing
𝟐𝟏 25 1 3
a) 𝟒𝟔 b) 117 c) 50 d) 25 together
𝟏 2 7 1
34. From a pack of 52 cards, one card is drawn at random. a) 𝟒 b) 7 c) 8 d) 3
What is the probability that the card drawn is a ten or 46. When 2 dice are rolled, what is the probability that
a spade? the sum of the results will be greater than 5?
𝟒 1 1 1 11 7 𝟏𝟑 5
a) 𝟏𝟑 b) 4 c) 13 d) 26 a) 18 b) 18 c) 𝟏𝟖 d) 18
3 1
35. A six sided dice is rolled 10 times. What is the 47. If P(A ∩ B)′ = 4 ; P(B) = 3 and P(A ̅∩B ̅) = 1. Find
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probability of getting a composite number exactly 3 the odds in the favour of Event A.
times? 3 3 5
a) 4 b) 8 c) 3 d) 2
𝟓𝟏𝟐𝟎 5120
a) 𝟑𝟗 b) 310
1165 × 28 1135 × 38
c) d)
310 810
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48. One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 match will end in a draw. What is the probability that
cards. Find the probability of getting a black face the match will end in a draw?
card? a) 0.50 b) 0.25 c) 0.75 d) 0.33
1 1 𝟑 1
a) 3 b) 52 c) 𝟐𝟔 d) 26 62. A bag contains 5 red, 7 yellow, and 3 pink balls. Three
49. A bag contains 6 Red, 5 Green and 4 Yellow coloured balls are drawn at random one after the other. What is
balls. 2 balls are drawn at random after one another the probability that one ball is yellow, one is red and
without replacement then what is the probability that one is pink?
atleast one ball is Green. a) 1/26 b) 3/13 c) 1/13 d) 3/8
2 4 3 𝟒 63. What are the appropriate odds against drawing a Club
a) b) c) d)
3 3 8 𝟕
50. 2 fair dice are thrown. What is the probability that the from the deck of cards?
1 3 1 𝟑
sum of the results will be divisible by 5? a) b) c) d)
𝟕 11 4 5 4 4 3 𝟏
a) b) c) d) 64. A die is cast thrice and a coin is tossed twice. Find the
𝟑𝟔 36 41 52
51. In a geometry box, there are 11 red colour pencils, 7 probability that the die will turn a 5 each time and the
blue colour pencils, and 21 green colour pencils. One coin will turn a head every time.
pencil is picked up randomly. What is the probability 𝟏 1 1 1
a) b) c) d)
that it is neither red nor blue? 𝟖𝟔𝟒 200 100 288
8 6 𝟕 11 65. Two cards are plucked out of the pack of 52 cards one
a) b) c) d) by one. Before taking out second card, the first card
13 13 𝟏𝟑 13
52. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the is not placed again in the pack. Find the probability of
probability of getting a total of at least 10? 1st being king and second being queen.
1 𝟏 3 2
a) 2 b) 𝟔 c) 4 d) 3 5 2 𝟒 1
a) 663 b) 663 c) 𝟔𝟔𝟑 d) 663
53. A bag contains balls numbered 1, 2, 3……… 30. One
ball is drawn from the bag at random. What is the 66. A bag contains 10 items of which 3 are defective. If
probability that the number on the ball drawn is three items are drawn one after another without
divisible by 4 or 6? replacement, find the probability that all are
1 𝟏 3 2 defective.
a) 5 b) 𝟑 c) 10 d) 5 3 1 𝟏 2
54. A box contains 2 blue, 3 green and 5 red balls. If three a) 80 b) 72 c) 𝟏𝟐𝟎 d) 90
balls are drawn at random, what is the probability that 67. Two students Anil and Ashima appeared in an
all balls are different in color? examination. The probability that Anil will qualify
a) 3/10 b) 1/4 c) 3/7 d) 4/11 the examination is 0.05 and that Ashima will qualify
55. The probability that a student will pass the final the examination is 0.10. The probability that both will
examination in both English and Hindi is 0.6 and the qualify the examination is 0.02. Find the probability
probability of passing neither is 0.2. If the probability that atleast one of them will not qualify the
of passing the English examination is 0.65. What is
the probability of passing the Hindi examination? examination?
a) 0.56 b) 0.65 c) 0.75 d) 0.85 a) 0.98 b) 0.97 c) 0.96 d) 0.83
56. A man is known to speak truth 3 out of 4 times. He 68. A person can hit a target 5 times out of 8 shoots. If he
throws a die and reports that it is a six. Find the fires 10 shots, what is the probability that he will hit
probability that it is actually a six. the target thrice?
3 3 𝟑 4 11255 × 38 𝟏𝟓𝟎𝟎𝟎 × 𝟑𝟕
a) 7 b) 5 c) 𝟖 d) 5 a) b)
810 𝟖𝟏𝟎
57. Out of 17 applicants 8 boys and 9 girls. Two persons 15000 × 38 1135 × 38
are to be selected for the job. Find the probability that c) d)
815 810
at least one of the selected persons will be a girl. 69. If the probability of Anshu winning a lottery ticket is
7 11 20 𝟐𝟕 7 7
a) 23 b) 22 c) 34 d) 𝟑𝟒 and Antu winning a lottery ticket is , then find the
12 9
58. From A deck of 52 cards, face cards are chosen. Out probability that exactly one of them won.
of these face cards, find the probability of getting a 𝟒𝟗 7 24 35
a) 𝟏𝟎𝟖 b) 36 c) 108 d) 108
red king card?
3 𝟏 5 1 70. The probability of randomly selecting a rotten guava
a) b) c) d) is 0.18 from the heap of 900 guavas. So, what is the
5 𝟔 6 26
59. What is the probability of forming word from the number of rotten guavas in a heap?
letters of word “TUESDAY” such that all vowels a) 162 b) 164 c) 136 d) 160
come together?
2 𝟏 3 8 71. Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the
a) b) c) d)
7 𝟕 35 35 probability of getting at most two heads?
60. A bag contains tickets numbered from 1 to 15. Two
a) 1/8 b) 1/4 c) 3/4 d) 7/8
tickets are drawn. The probability that both numbers
are prime, is?
1 𝟏 1 1
a) 5 b) 𝟕 c) 9 d) 12
61. Two players, Sangeet and Rashmi, play a tennis
match. Either Sangeet or Rashmi will win or the
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72. Jacks, Queens, Kings and Aces of red color are 1 13 25 𝟐𝟔
a) b) c) d)
removed. From the remaining cards a card is drawn at 2 25 51 𝟓𝟏
79. Find the probability of getting a sum of at least 8
random. Find the probability, that the card drawn is a
while throwing 2 dice if neither of the two dice shows
black queen?
1 1 𝟏 1 a number less than 4.
a) 20 b) 15 c) 𝟐𝟐 d) 30 4 𝟏 1 2
a) 9 b) 𝟒 c) 3 d) 9
1 1 3
73. If P(A) = ; P(B ∪ C) = ; P(A ∪ B ∪ C) = . Find 80. A committee of 4 students is selected at random from
2 6 5
𝑃((A ∩ B) ∪ (A ∩ C)) a group consisting 8 boys and 4 girls. Given that there
𝟏 2 5 7 is at least one girl in the committee, calculate the
a) 𝟏𝟓 b) 15 c) 8 d) 8
probability that there are exactly 2 girls on the
74. In a deck of cards, what is the probability of drawing committee.
two aces in a row without replacement? 166 160 5 𝟏𝟔𝟖
𝟏 4 1 4 a) 422 b) 421 c) 2 d) 𝟒𝟐𝟓
a) 𝟐𝟐𝟏 b) 221 c) 169 d) 169
81. What is the probability of getting either both red or
75. Three cards are drawn at random from 52 cards. Find both kings when two cards are randomly drawn from
the probability of these cards being a king, a queen a well shuffled deck of 52 cards?
and jack. 15 7 331 𝟓𝟓
16 16 a) 26 b) 13 c) 1326 d) 𝟐𝟐𝟏
a) b)
5214 5624 82. Three dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the
16 𝟏𝟔
c) 5220
d) 𝟓𝟓𝟐𝟓 probability that either of the corresponding sides of
76. A coin is tossed 9 times. Find the probability of at all three dice shows the same number?
1 𝟏 5 1
most 2 tails. a) 6 b) 𝟑𝟔 c) 72 d) 24
21 𝟐𝟑 29 31
a) 256 b) 𝟐𝟓𝟔 c) 256 d) 256 83. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the
77. In a general survey of 832 people, it was found that probability that sum of the numbers on both the dice
624 owned a car. If a person is selected randomly, is a prime number.
1 𝟓 7 11
what is the probability that the person will not be an a) 4 b) 𝟏𝟐 c) 12 d) 12
owner of a car?
a) 1.33 b) 0.25 c) 0.75 d) 0.40
78. Two cards are drawn from a pack of 52 cards. The
probability that out of 2 cards, one card is red and one
card is black is:

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