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Probability Practice Questions

The document contains 22 probability practice questions covering a variety of probability concepts. Some examples include: finding the probability of 53 Sundays in an ordinary vs leap year; calculating the probability of drawing balls of certain colors from bags with multiple balls; determining the probability of certain outcomes when dice are rolled or coins are tossed; and assessing probabilities of events and outcomes in manufacturing, quality testing, medical diagnostics and other scenarios.

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Probability Practice Questions

The document contains 22 probability practice questions covering a variety of probability concepts. Some examples include: finding the probability of 53 Sundays in an ordinary vs leap year; calculating the probability of drawing balls of certain colors from bags with multiple balls; determining the probability of certain outcomes when dice are rolled or coins are tossed; and assessing probabilities of events and outcomes in manufacturing, quality testing, medical diagnostics and other scenarios.

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Probability Practice Questions


1. Find the probability of 53 Sundays in an ordinary year

2. Find the probability of 53 Sundays in a leap year

3. A bag consists of 4 white, 5 black and 7 red balls. Three balls are drawn at random. What is the
probability that all of them are black
4. A bag contains 5 green and 7 red balls. Two balls are drawn at random, what is the probability that one is
green and one is red.
5. A word consists of 9 letters, 5 consonants and 4 vowels. Three letters are selected at random, find the
probability that at least two vowels are selected.
6. Two dice are rolled together. Find the probability of an even number on first die or a total of 8

7. The probability that at least one of the events A and B occurs is 0.6. The probability of occurrence of A
and B simultaneous is 0.2, Find
8. Ongky can solve 90% of the problems given in a book, Darien can solve 70% of the problems given in
the same book. If both of them try a randomly selected problem, what is the probability that the problem
will be solved?
9. A husband and a wife appear in an interview for two vacancies in the same post. The probability of
husband’s selection is and that of wife is , what is the probability that:

 Both of them will be selected.


 Only one of them is selected.
 None of them will be selected.
 At last one of them is selected.

10. A speaks truth in 75 % and B in 80% of the cases. In what percentage of cases they likely to contradict [35%]
each other, narrating the same incident.
11. A bag contains 4 red and 3 black balls. A second bag contains 2 red and 4 black. One bag is selected at
random and from the selected bag, one ball is drawn, find the probability that the ball drawn is red.
12. Rose and Jiss throw a coin alternately till one of them gets a ‘HEAD’ and wins the game. If Jiss starts
the game, find their respective probabilities of winning the game.
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13. Three people A, B and C throw a die in succession till one of them gets a “SIX’ and wins the game. Find
their respective probabilities of winning.

14. A die is rolled, if the outcome is an odd number, find the probability that it is prime

15. Three fair coins are tossed; Find the probability that they are all tails, if one of them shows a tail.

16. A bag contains3 red and 4 black balls and another bag has 4 red and 2 black balls. One bag is selected
at random and from the selected bag, a ball is chosen. Let E be the event ‘the first bag is selected’ F
the event ‘the second bag is selected’ and G the event ‘the ball drawn is red’
Find P(E), P(F), P(G/ E) and P(G/ F)
17. A bag ‘A’ contains 2 white and 3 red balls and a bag B contains 4 white and 5 red balls. One ball is drawn
at random from one of the bags and it is found to be red. Find the probability that it was drawn from bag B
18. In a bolt factory three machines A, B and C manufacture 25%, 35% and 40% of the total production. Of the
total output 5%, 4% and 2% are the defective bolts respectively. A bolt is drawn at random from the total
production and it is found to be defective. Find the probability that it was manufactured from machine C
19. A card from a pack of 52 cards is lost. From the remaining cards of the pack, two cards are drawn and
found to be hearts. Find the probability of the missing card to be a heart.
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20. A company manufactures cars at two plants A and B. plant A produces 80% and plant B manufactures 20%
of the total output. 85% of the cars produced at plant A are standard in quality while 65% of the cars
produced in plant B are standard. A car produced by the company is selected at random and found to be
standard in quality. What is the probability that it was manufactured at plant A
21. A person has undertaken a construction job. The probabilities are 0.65 that there will be strike, 0.80 that the [ ]
construction job will be completed on time if there is no strike, and 0.32 that the construction job will be
completed on time if there is a strike. Determine the probability that the construction job will be completed
on time, if there is no strike.
22. Suppose that the reliability of HIV test is specified as follows: [0.083]
Of people having HIV, 90% of the test detects the disease but 10% go undetected. Of people free of HIV,
99% of the test are judged HIV negative but 1% are diagnosed as showing HIV positive. From a large
population of which 0.1% have HIV, one person is selected and the pathologist reports him/ her as HIV
positive, What is the probability that the person actually has HIV ?

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