VELTECH (OWNED BY R.S.

TRUST)
DEPARTMENT OF PLACEMENT
DEGREE

: B.E.

TOPIC CODE: Q1

TIME: 30MINS
TOPIC NAME: PROBABILITY

1. Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at random. What is the probability that the
ticket drawn has a number which is a multiple of 3 or 5?
A.

B.

2/5

C.

8/15

D.

9/20

2. A bag contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue balls. Two balls are drawn at random. What is the probability that
none of the balls drawn is blue?
A.

10/21

B.

11/21

C.

2/7

D.

5/7

3. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability of getting two numbers whose product is even?
A.

B.

C.

3/8

D.

5/16

4. In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 blanks. A lottery is drawn at random. What is the probability of
getting a prize?
A.

1/10

B.

2/5

C.

2/7

D.

5/7

5. Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52 cards. The probability that one is a spade and one is a heart,
is:
A.

3/20

B.

29/34

C.

47/100

D.

13/102.

6. A bag contains 6 white and 4 black balls .2 balls are drawn at random. Find the probability that they are of
same colour.
A.

B.

7/15

C.

8/15

D.

1/9

7. A man and his wife appear in an interview for two vacancies in the same post. The probability of husband's
selection is (1/7) and the probability of wife's selection is (1/5). What is the probability that only one of them is
selected?
A.

2/7

B.

1/7

C.

D.

4/5

8. Two cards are drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards.what is the probability that either both are black or
both are queen?
A.

52/221

B.

55/190

C.

55/221

D.

19/221

9. In a class, there are 15 boys and 10 girls. Three students are selected at random. The probability that 1 girl
and 2 boys are selected, is:
A.

21/46

B.

25/117

C.

1/50

D.

3/25.

10. What is the probability that when a hand of 5 cards is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards, it
contains all Queens?
A.

192/37015

B.

182/379015

C.

192/37901

D.

192/379015

11. A die is thrown three times. Events X and Y are defined as below:
X : 4 on the third throw
Y : 6 on the first and 5 on the second throw
What is the probability of X given that Y has already occurred.
A.
C.

2/6
1/5

B.

1/6

D.

None of these

12. Given that E and F are events such that P(E) = 0.16, P(F) = 0.4 and P(E n F) = 0.4,
find P (E|F) and P(F|E)
A.

,2

B.

,1

C.

1/5

D.

None of those

13. If P (A) = 0.18, P (B) = 0.5 and P (B|A) = 0.2, find P(A n B)?
A.

0.32

B.

0.36

C.

0.16

D.

0.64

14. An urn contains 10 black and 5 white balls. Two balls are drawn from the urn one after the other without
replacement. What is the probability that both drawn balls are black?

A.

1/7

B.

2/7

C.

7/3

D.

3/7

15. A die is thrown. If G is the event 'the number appearing is a multiple of 3' and H be the event 'the number
appearing is even' then find whether G and H are independent ?
A.) G and H are not independent events

B.) G and H are independent events.

C.) Only G independent event

D.) None of these

ANSWERS

1. Option D

2. Option A
3. Option B
4. Option C
5. Option D
6. Option B
7. Option A
8. Option C
9. Option A
10. Option D
11. Option B
12. Option C
13. Option B
14. Option D
15. Option B

EXPLANATIONS
1. Explanation:
Here, S = {1, 2, 3, 4, ...., 19, 20}.

Let E = event of getting a multiple of 3 or 5 = {3, 6 , 9, 12, 15, 18, 5, 10, 20}.
n(E)
n(S)

P(E) =

9
20

10
21

2. Explanation:
Total number of balls = (2 + 3 + 2) = 7.
Let S be the sample space, Then, n(S)

= Number of ways of drawing 2 balls out of 7

= 7C2 `
(7 x 6)
(2 x 1)

=
= 21.
Let E = Event of drawing 2 balls, none of which is blue.
n(E)

= Number of ways of drawing 2 balls out of (2 + 3) balls.

= 5C2
(5 x 4)
(2 x 1)

=
= 10.
n(E)
n(S)

P(E) =

3.Explanation:
In a simultaneous throw of two dice, we have n(S) = (6 x 6) = 36.
Then, E

= {(1, 2), (1, 4), (1, 6), (2, 1), (2, 2), (2, 3), (2, 4), (2, 5), (2, 6), (3, 2), (3, 4),
(3, 6), (4, 1), (4, 2), (4, 3), (4, 4), (4, 5), (4, 6), (5, 2), (5, 4), (5, 6), (6, 1),
(6, 2), (6, 3), (6, 4), (6, 5), (6, 6)}

n(E) = 27.
P(E) =

4. Explanation:

n(E)
n(S)

27
36

3
4

10
(10 + 25)

P (getting a prize) =

10
35

2
.
7

5.Explanation:
Let S be the sample space.
(52 x 51)
(2 x 1)

Then, n(S) = 52C2 =

= 1326.

Let E = event of getting 1 spade and 1 heart.

n(E)

= number of ways of choosing 1 spade out of 13 and 1 heart out of 13

= (13C1 x 13C1)
= (13 x 13)
= 169.
P(E) =

n(E)
n(S)

169
1326

6. Let S be the sample space

Then n(S) = no of ways of drawing 2 balls out of (6+4) =
Let E = event of getting both balls of same colour
Then,n(E) = no of ways (2 balls out of six) or (2 balls out of 4)
=

= 15+6 = 21

Therefore, P(E) = n(E)/n(S) = 21/45 = 7/15.

7.

=45

13
102

8. We have n(s) =

= 1326.

Let A = event of getting both black cards

B = event of getting both queens
AB = event of getting queen of black cards
n(A) =

= 325, n(B)=

= 6 and n(AB) =

=1

P(A) = n(A)/n(S) = 325/1326;

P(B) = n(B)/n(S) = 6/1326 and
P(AB) = n(AB)/n(S) = 1/1326
P(AB) = P(A) + P(B) - P(AB) = (325+6-1) / 1326 = 330/1326 = 55/221.

9. Explanation:
Let S be the sample space and E be the event of selecting 1 girl and 2 boys.
Then, n(S)

= Number ways of selecting 3 students out of 25

= 25C3 `
(25 x 24 x 23)
(3 x 2 x 1)

=
= 2300.
n(E)

= (10C1 x 15C2)
=

10 x

(15 x 14)
(2 x 1)

= 1050.
P(E) =

n(E)
n(S)

10. nCr = n!/(n-r)!r!

Total number of possible hands = 52C5
52

C5 = 2274090

Number of hands with 4 Queens = 4C4 48C1

4

C4 = 24

48

C1 = 48

(other 1 card must be chosen from the rest 48 cards)

Hence P (a hand will have 4 Queens) = (4C4 48C1)/52C5 = 192/379015.

11. The sample space has 216 outcomes.

Now X = (1,1,4) (1,2,4) ... (1,6,4) (2,1,4) (2,2,4) ... (2,6,4)
(3,1,4) (3,2,4) ... (3,6,4) (4,1,4) (4,2,4) ...(4,6,4)
(5,1,4) (5,2,4) ... (5,6,4) (6,1,4) (6,2,4) ...(6,5,4) (6,6,4)
Y = {(6,5,1), (6,5,2), (6,5,3), (6,5,4), (6,5,5), (6,5,6)}
and X n Y = {(6,5,4)}.
Now P(Y) = 6/216
and P (X n Y) = 1/216
Then P(X|Y) = (1/216)/(6/216) = 1/6.

12. Here, E and F are events

P(E|F) = P(EnF)/P(F) = 0.4/0.4 = 1
P(F|E) = P(EnF)/P(E) = 0.4/0.16 = 1/4.

1050
2300

21
46

13. P(B|A) = P(A n B)/P(A)

P(A n B) = P(B|A) P(A)
P(A n B) = 0.2 0.18 ,

P(A n B) = 0.36.

14. Let E and F denote respectively the events that first and second ball drawn
are black. We have to find P(E n F) or P (EF).
Now P(E) = P (black ball in first draw) = 10/15
Also given that the first ball drawn is black, i.e., event E has occurred, now there are 9 black balls and five
white balls left in the urn. Therefore, the probability that the second ball drawn is black, given that the ball in
the first draw is black, is nothing but the conditional probability of F given that E has occurred.
That is P(F|E) = 9/14
By multiplication rule of probability, we have
P (E n F) = P(E) P(F|E)
= 10/15 9/14 = 3/7

15. We know that the sample space is S = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}

Now G = { 3, 6}, F = { 2, 4, 6} and E n F = {6}
Then P(G) = 2/6 = 1/3
P(H) = 3/6 = 1/2 and P(G H) = 1/6
P(G n H) = P(G). P (H)
G and H are independent events.