Aggarwal Special Class

1. Solve the problem:

(a) A jar contains 13 red marbles and 7 green marbles. The probability that a marble
selected from the jar at random will be green is?
(A) 0.5 (B) 1.0 (C) 0.35 (D) 0.65 (E) All of these
(b) In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly.
What is the probability that it is neither red nor green?
1 3 7 8
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) 9
3 4 19 21
(c) The ratio of the number of red balls, to yellow balls, to green balls in an urn is 2 : 3 :
4. What is the probability that a ball chosen at random from the urn is a red ball?
2 5 5 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) None of them
7 10 9 9
(d) Nine pieces of paper numbered consecutively from 1 to 9 are put into a box. If a
piece of paper is drawn at random from the box, what is the probability that it will
have a number greater than 6?
1 1 2 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) None of these
9 3 9 9
(e) A dice is thrown at random. What is the probability of getting a number less than 5?
2 1 3 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
3 6 4 2 5
2. A special lottery is to be held to select the student who will live in the only deluxe room
in a dormitory. There are 100 seniors, 150 juniors, and 200 sophomores who applied.
Each senior’s name is placed in the lottery 3 times; each junior’s name, 2 times; and
each sophomore’s, 1 time. What is the probability that a senior’s name will be chosen?
1 2 2 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) None of these
8 9 7 8
3. Two integers will be randomly selected from the sets A = {2, 3, 4, 5} and B = {4, 5, 6, 7, 8}.
One integer from set A and another from set B, what is the probability that the sum of the
two integers will equal 9?
(A) 0.15 (B) 0.20 (C) 0.05 (D) 0.73 (E) none of these
4. What is the probability that the product of two integers (not necessarily different
integers) randomly selected from the numbers 1 through 20, inclusive, is odd?
(A).33 (B) .25 (C) .50 (D) .75 (E) None of them
5. If a card is picked up at random from a pack of 52 cards. Find the probability that it is
(a) A spade.
1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) None of these
9 6 4 5
(b) A king or queen.
3 2 7 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) None of these
13 13 52 169
(c) ‘A spade’ or ‘A king’ or ‘A queen’
21 5 19 29
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) None of these
52 13 52 52
(d) From a pack of cards the king of spade is taken out. A card is then drawn; find the
probability that the card drawn would be a king of hearts.
1 4 1 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) None of these
52 52 51 51
6. There are 8 job applicants sitting in a waiting room – 4 women and 4 men. Two of the
applicants are selected one after another at random. What is the probability that both
will be women?
1 3 1 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) None of these
2 2 4 14
7. In a container, there are 2 green marbles and 2 red marbles. You randomly pick two
marbles. What is the probability that both of them are green?
1 1 1 1
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 6 (D) 8 (E) None of these
8. A jar contains 4 red toothpicks, 10 blue toothpicks and 6 yellow toothpicks. If three
toothpicks are removed from the bag at random and no toothpick is returned to the bag
after removal, what is the probability that all three toothpicks will be blue?
1 1 1 2
(A) 2 (B) 8 (C) 20 (D) (E) None of these
19
9. Three coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting
(i) 2 Tails and 1 Head —
1 3 2 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) None
4 8 3 8
(ii) 1 Tail and 2 Heads —
3 2 3
(A) (B) 1 (C) (D) (E) None
8 3 4
(iii) Neither 3 Heads nor 3 Tails —
1 1 2 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) None
2 3 3 4
(iv) Three heads —
1 1 1 2
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) None
8 4 2 3
(v) At least one tail:
2 7 3 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) None
3 8 8 2
10. When tossed, a certain coin has equal probability of landing on either side. If the coin is
tossed 3 times, what is the probability that it will land on the same side each time?
1 1 1 3 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E)
8 4 3 8 2
11. When 4 dice are thrown, what is the probability that the same number appears on each
of them?
1 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) None of these
36 18 216 5
12. There are 12 yes or no questions. How many ways can these be answered?
(A) 1024 (B) 2048 (C) 4096 (D) 144 (E) None of these
13. How many ways can 4 prizes be given away to 3 boys, if each boy is eligible for all the
prizes?
(A) 256 (B) 12 (C) 81 (D) 27 (E) None of these
14. The probability that a student will graduate with honors and get a good job is 0.09.
Whereas the probability that a student will graduate with honors is 0.1. What is the
probability that a student will get a good job if she graduates with honors?
(A) 90% (B) 9% (C) 0.9% (D) 18% (E) None of these
15. What is the probability that a two-digit number selected at random will be a multiple of '3'
and not a multiple of '5'?
2 4 1 4
(A) (B) (C) (D) (E) None of these
15 15 15 90