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Q1. A military man can strike a target once in 3 bullets. If he fires 3 bullets in succession, what is the probability that he will strike his target?
a) 1/3
b) 19/27
c) 2/3
d) 8/27
e) None of these
Q2. Three dice are thrown together. Find the probability of getting a total of at least 6?
a) 103/216
b) 103/208
c) 103/108
d) 36/103
e) None of these
Q3. A number is selected at random from first 40 natural numbers. What is the chance that it is a multiple of either 4 or 14?
a) 1/5
b) 11/40
c) 3/10
d) 10/40
e) None of these
Q4. In a bag, there are 4 white, 4 red and 2 green balls. Two balls are drawn at random. What is the probability that at least one ball is of green colour?
a) 4/5
b) 3/5
c) 1/5
d) 2/5
e) None of these
Q5. An urn contains 9 blue, 5 white and 7 black balls. If 2 balls are drawn at random, what is the probability that only one ball is white?
a) 3/10
b) 7/22
c) 8/21
d) 11/21
e) 16/21
Q6. here are 7 red balls and 8 yellow balls in a bag. Two balls are simultaneously drawn at random. What is the probability that both the balls are of the same colour?
a) 3/18
b) 13/30
c) 3/10
d) 7/18
e) 7/15
Q7. A boss decides to distribute Rs. 2000 between 2 employees. He knows X deserves more that Y, but does not know how much more. So he decides to arbitrarily break Rs. 2000 into two parts and give X the bigger part. What is the chance that X gets twice as much as Y or more?
a) 2/3
b) 1/5
c) 1/3
d) 2/5
e) None of the above
Q8. A book-shelf contains 2 English, 3 Hindi and 4 Sanskrit books. If two books are picked at random, then what is the probability that either all are Sanskrit or all are English books?
a) 12/36
b) 7/36
c) 15/36
d) 11/36
e) None of these
Q9. In a college, 35% of the students speak English, 55% speak Hindi and 14(2/7)% speak both the languages. If a student is selected at random for a competition, what is the probability that he/she can speak English or Hindi?
a) 1/7
b) 1/6
c) 63/70
d) 53/70
e) None of these
Q10. In a class test of 50 students, 20 are boys and 30 are girls. 10 boys and 15 girls ranked in A grade. If a student is chosen at random from the class, what is the probability of choosing a girl or an A grade student?
a) 2/5
b) 3/5
c) 8/5
d) 4/5
e) None of these
Answers:
b) 19/27
c) 103/108
b) 11/40
d) 2/5
c) 8/21
e) 7/15
a) 2/3
b) 7/36
d) 53/70
d) 4/5