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This section includes 992 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your General Aptitude knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 901. |
Two dice are tossed. The probability that the total score is a prime number is |
| A. | 1/6 |
| B. | 1/2 |
| C. | 5/12 |
| D. | 3/4 |
| Answer» D. 3/4 | |
| 902. |
In a class, 30% of the students offered English, 20% offered Hindi and 10% offered both. If a student is selected at random, what is the probability that he. has offered English or Hindi ? |
| A. | 1/2 |
| B. | 3/4 |
| C. | 4/5 |
| D. | 2/5 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 903. |
The probability that a card drawn from a pack of 52 cards will be a diamond or a king, is |
| A. | 5/12 |
| B. | 4/13 |
| C. | 5/13 |
| D. | 3/14 |
| Answer» C. 5/13 | |
| 904. |
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. | 1/7 |
| B. | 2/7 |
| C. | 3/7 |
| D. | 2/5 |
| Answer» C. 3/7 | |
| 905. |
In a simultaneous throw of two dice, what is the probability of getting a doublet ? |
| A. | 1/6 |
| B. | 1/3 |
| C. | 4/7 |
| D. | 4/5 |
| Answer» B. 1/3 | |
| 906. |
In a simultaneous throw of two dice, what is the probability of getting a total of 7 ? |
| A. | 1/6 |
| B. | 1/4 |
| C. | 1/20 |
| D. | 3/4 |
| Answer» B. 1/4 | |
| 907. |
What is the probability of getting a sum 9 from two throws of a dice ? |
| A. | 1/6 |
| B. | 1/2 |
| C. | 1/9 |
| D. | 3/4 |
| Answer» D. 3/4 | |
| 908. |
Three unbiased coins are tossed.What is the probability of getting at least 2 heads? |
| A. | 1/4 |
| B. | 1/2 |
| C. | 3/4 |
| D. | 1/3 |
| Answer» C. 3/4 | |
| 909. |
n is an integer chosen at random from the set {5, 7, 9, 11 } p is chosen at random from the set {2, 6, 10, 14, 18} What is the probability that n + p = 23 ? |
| A. | 0.1 |
| B. | 0.2 |
| C. | 0.25 |
| D. | 0.3 |
| Answer» B. 0.2 | |
| 910. |
Three fair coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting more heads than the number of tails |
| A. | 2 |
| B. | 7/8 |
| C. | 5/8 |
| D. | 1/2 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 911. |
An unbiased die is rolled. Find the probability of getting a multiple of 3? |
| A. | 1/6 |
| B. | 1/3 |
| C. | 5/6 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. 5/6 | |
| 912. |
Two dice are rolled simultaneously. Find the probability of getting a total of 9. |
| A. | 1/3 |
| B. | 1/9 |
| C. | 8/9 |
| D. | 9/10 |
| Answer» C. 8/9 | |
| 913. |
One card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards , each of the 52 cards being equally likely to be drawn. Find the probability that the card drawn is neither a spade nor a king. |
| A. | 0 |
| B. | 9/13 |
| C. | 1/2 |
| D. | 4/13 |
| Answer» C. 1/2 | |
| 914. |
Four dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability that two of them show the same face and remaining two show the different faces. |
| A. | 4/9 |
| B. | 5/9 |
| C. | 11/18 |
| D. | 7/9 |
| Answer» C. 11/18 | |
| 915. |
Tickets are numbered from 1 to 18 are mixed up together and then 9 tickets are drawn at random. Find the probability that the ticket has a number, which is a multiple of 2 or 3. |
| A. | 1/3 |
| B. | 3/5 |
| C. | 2/3 |
| D. | 5/6 |
| Answer» D. 5/6 | |
| 916. |
A bag contains 8 red and 4 green balls. Find the probability that two balls are red and one ball is green when three balls are drawn at random. |
| A. | 56/99 |
| B. | 112/495 |
| C. | 78/495 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. 78/495 | |
| 917. |
A box contains 5 detective and 15 non-detective bulbs. Two bulbs are chosen at random. Find the probability that both the bulbs are non-defective. |
| A. | 5/19 |
| B. | 3/20 |
| C. | 21/38 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 918. |
The probability of occurance of two two events A and B are 1/4 and 1/2 respectively. The probability of their simultaneous occurrance is 7/50. Find the probability that neither A nor B occurs |
| A. | 25/99 |
| B. | 39/100 |
| C. | 61/100 |
| D. | 17/100 |
| Answer» C. 61/100 | |
| 919. |
In a single throw of two dice , find the probability that neither a doublet nor a total of 8 will appear. |
| A. | 7/15 |
| B. | 5/18 |
| C. | 13/18 |
| D. | 3/16 |
| Answer» C. 13/18 | |
| 920. |
Two cards are drawn at random from a well - shuffled pack of 52 cards. what is the probability that either both are red or both are queens? |
| A. | 17/112 |
| B. | 55/221 |
| C. | 55/121 |
| D. | 33/221 |
| Answer» C. 55/121 | |
| 921. |
A basket contains 10 apples and 20 oranges out of which 3 apples and 5 oranges are defective. If we choose two fruits at random, what is the probability that either both are oranges or both are non defective? |
| A. | 136/345 |
| B. | 17/8 |
| C. | 316/435 |
| D. | 158/435 |
| Answer» D. 158/435 | |
| 922. |
A coin is tossed twice if the coin shows head it is tossed again but if it shows a tail then a die is tossed. If 8 possible outcomes are equally likely. Find the probability that the die shows a number greater than 4, if it is known that the first throw of the coin results in a tail |
| A. | 1/3 |
| B. | 2/3 |
| C. | 2/5 |
| D. | 4/15 |
| Answer» B. 2/3 | |
| 923. |
An urn contains 4 white 6 black and 8 red balls . If 3 balls are drawn one by one without replacement, find the probability of getting all white balls. |
| A. | 5/204 |
| B. | 1/204 |
| C. | 13/204 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. 13/204 | |
| 924. |
A problem is given to three students whose chances of solving it are 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4 respectively. What is the probability that the problem will be solved? |
| A. | 1/4 |
| B. | 1/2 |
| C. | 3/4 |
| D. | 7/12 |
| Answer» D. 7/12 | |
| 925. |
The probabilities that a student will receive an A, B, C or D grade are 0.4, 0.3 , 0.2 and 0.1 respectively. Find the probability that a student will receive Atleast B grade. |
| A. | 0.21 |
| B. | 0.3 |
| C. | 0.7 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 926. |
Ajay and his wife Reshmi appear in an interview for two vaccancies in the same post. The Probability of Ajay's selection is 1/7 and that of his wife Reshmi's selection is 1/5. What is the probability that only one of them will be selected? |
| A. | 5/7 |
| B. | 1/5 |
| C. | 2/7 |
| D. | 2/35 |
| Answer» D. 2/35 | |
| 927. |
A bag contains 4 red and 3 black balls. A second bag contains 2 red and 4 black balls. One bag is selected at random. From the selected bag, one ball is drawn. Find the probability that the ball drawn is red. |
| A. | 23/42 |
| B. | 19/42 |
| C. | 7/32 |
| D. | 16/39 |
| Answer» C. 7/32 | |
| 928. |
8 couples (husband and wife) attend a dance show "Nach Baliye' in a popular TV channel ; A lucky draw in which 4 persons picked up for a prize is held, then the probability that there is atleast one couple will be selected is |
| A. | 8/39 |
| B. | 15/39 |
| C. | 12/13 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. 12/13 | |
| 929. |
A letter is takenout at random from 'ASSISTANT' and another is taken out from 'STATISTICS'. The probability that they are the same letter is : |
| A. | 35/96 |
| B. | 19/90 |
| C. | 19/96 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. 19/96 | |
| 930. |
A box contains 5 green, 4 yellow and 5 white pearls. Four pearls are drawn at random. What is the probability that they are not of the same colour ? A) 11/91 B) 4/11 C) 1/11 D) 90/91 |
| A. | Option A |
| B. | Option B |
| C. | Option C |
| D. | Option D |
| Answer» E. | |
| 931. |
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. | 2/3 |
| B. | 1/2 |
| C. | 7/8 |
| D. | 4/5 |
| Answer» C. 7/8 | |
| 932. |
Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most two heads ? |
| A. | 4/3 |
| B. | 2/3 |
| C. | 3/2 |
| D. | 3/4 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 933. |
If two cards are taken one after another without replacing from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability for the two cards be Ace ? |
| A. | 51/1221 |
| B. | 42/221 |
| C. | 1/221 |
| D. | 52/1245 |
| Answer» D. 52/1245 | |
| 934. |
Out of sixty students, there are 14 who are taking Economics and 29 who are taking Calculus. What is the probability that a randomly chosen student from this group is taking only the Calculus class ? |
| A. | 8/15 |
| B. | 7/15 |
| C. | 1/15 |
| D. | 4/15 |
| Answer» C. 1/15 | |
| 935. |
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 4 or 15 ? |
| A. | 6/19 |
| B. | 3/10 |
| C. | 7/10 |
| D. | 6/17 |
| Answer» C. 7/10 | |
| 936. |
The Manager of a company accepts only one employees leave request for a particular day. If five employees namely Roshan, Mahesh, Sripad, Laxmipriya and Shreyan applied for the leave on the occasion of Diwali. What is the probability that Laxmi priya’s leave request will be approved ? |
| A. | 1 |
| B. | 1/5 |
| C. | 5 |
| D. | 4/5 |
| Answer» C. 5 | |
| 937. |
fifteen persons are sitting around a circular table facing the centre. What is the probability that three particular persons sit together ? |
| A. | 3/91 |
| B. | 2/73 |
| C. | 1/91 |
| D. | 3/73 |
| Answer» B. 2/73 | |
| 938. |
One lady has 2 children, one of her child is boy, what is the probability of having both are boys ? |
| A. | 1/3 |
| B. | 1/2 |
| C. | 2/3 |
| D. | 2/5 |
| Answer» B. 1/2 | |
| 939. |
Consider 5 independent Bernoulli’s trials each with probability of success p. If the probability of at least one failure is greater than or equal to 31/32 , then p lies in the interval ? |
| A. | [1, 32] |
| B. | (0, 1) |
| C. | [1, 1/2] |
| D. | (1, 1/2] |
| Answer» D. (1, 1/2] | |
| 940. |
There are 10 Letters and 10 correspondingly 10 different Address. If the letter are put into envelope randomly, then find the Probability that Exactly 9 letters will at the Correct Address ? |
| A. | 1/10 |
| B. | 1/9 |
| C. | 1 |
| D. | 0 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 941. |
If two dice are thrown together, the probability of getting an even number on one die and an odd number on the other is ? |
| A. | 1 |
| B. | 1/2 |
| C. | 0 |
| D. | 3/5 |
| Answer» C. 0 | |
| 942. |
In a party there are 5 couples. Out of them 5 people are chosen at random. Find the probability that there are at the least two couples ? |
| A. | 6/7 |
| B. | 19/21 |
| C. | 7/31 |
| D. | 5/21 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 943. |
The probability that a number selected at random from the first 100 natural numbers is a composite number is ? |
| A. | 3/2 |
| B. | 2/3 |
| C. | 1/2 |
| D. | 34/7 |
| Answer» B. 2/3 | |
| 944. |
Out of first 20 natural numbers, one number is selected at random. The probability that it is either an even number or a prime number is ? |
| A. | 16/19 |
| B. | 1 |
| C. | 3/2 |
| D. | 17/20 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 945. |
What is the probability that a leap year has 53 Saturdays and 52 Sundays ? |
| A. | 1/7 |
| B. | 2/7 |
| C. | 1/2 |
| D. | 3/2 |
| Answer» B. 2/7 | |
| 946. |
A box contains 3 blue marbles, 4 red, 6 green marbles and 2 yellow marbles. If two marbles are picked at random, what is the probability that they are either blue or yellow ? |
| A. | 3/17 |
| B. | 4/21 |
| C. | 2/21 |
| D. | 5/17 |
| Answer» D. 5/17 | |
| 947. |
A fair six-sided die is rolled twice. What is the probability of getting 4 on the first roll and not getting 6 on the second roll ? |
| A. | 1/36 |
| B. | 5/36 |
| C. | 1/12 |
| D. | 1/9 |
| Answer» C. 1/12 | |
| 948. |
The first 8 alphabets are written down at random. what is the probability that the letters b,c,d,e always come together ? |
| A. | 1/7 |
| B. | 8! |
| C. | 7! |
| D. | 1/14 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 949. |
A fair coin is tossed 11 times. What is the probability that only the first two tosses will yield heads ? |
| A. | 1/2)^11 |
| B. | (9)(1/2) |
| C. | (11C2)(1/2)^9 |
| D. | (1/2) |
| Answer» B. (9)(1/2) | |
| 950. |
One card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards, each of the 52 cards being equally likely to be drawn find the probability the card drawn is red. |
| A. | 2/3 |
| B. | 1/2 |
| C. | 1/52 |
| D. | 13/51 |
| Answer» C. 1/52 | |