Explore topic-wise MCQs in Arithmetic.

This section includes 13 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Arithmetic knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.

1.

Directions (Set of 2 Questions): Kindly study the following information carefully and answer the question that follows: A box contains 4 white, 6 green, 2 red and 5 yellow pens. If two pens are picked at random, what is the probability that both of them are green?

A. 5 136
B. 1 136
C. 15 136
D. 8 15
E. 121 136
Answer» D. 8 15
2.

From a box containing 8 yellow and 5 white pens, three are drawn one after the other. Find the probability of all three pens being yellow if the pen drawn is replaced by another yellow colored pen before the next pen is picked.

A. 336 2197
B. 512 2197
C. 40 2197
D. 57 91
E. None of these
Answer» C. 40 2197
3.

Directions (Set of 2 Questions): Kindly study the following information carefully and answer the question that follows: From a box containing 8 yellow and 5 white pens, three are drawn one after the other. Find the probability of all three pens being yellow if the pens drawn are not replaced?

A. 336 1716
B. 128 429
C. 113 1716
D. 336 2197
E. None of these
Answer» B. 128 429
4.

A shop sells 10 tube lights out of which 3 are defective. Salman buys four tube lights. Find the probability that all of Salman’s tube lights work.

A. 1 15
B. 1 25
C. 1 30
D. 1 35
E. None of these
Answer» F.
5.

Directions (Set of 2 Questions): Kindly study the following information carefully and answer the question that follows: A shop sells 10 tube lights out of which 3 are defective. Salman buys four tube lights. Find the probability that at least two of the tube lights that he buys work.

A. 29 30
B. 34 35
C. 14 15
D. 24 25
E. None of these
Answer» B. 34 35
6.

A bag contains 6 pink and 5 yellow balls. One ball is drawn randomly. What is the probability that the ball drawn is Pink?

A. 5 11
B. 1 2
C. 3 11
D. 6 11
E. None of these
Answer» E. None of these
7.

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
Answer» D. 36 103
8.

A box contains slips with numbers from 1 to 50 written on them. A slip is drawn and replaced. Then another slip is drawn and after replacing another slip is drawn. What is the probability that an even number appears on the first draw, an odd number on the second draw and a number divisible by 3 on the third draw?

A. 1 25
B. 2 25
C. 8 25
D. 4 25
E. None of the above
Answer» C. 8 25
9.

A child paints the six faces of a cube with six different colors red, blue, pink, yellow, green and orange. What is the probability that red, pink and blue faces share a common corner?

A. 1 6
B. 1 20
C. 1 10
D. 1 5
E. None of these
Answer» E. None of these
10.

Ram and Shyam are playing chess together. Ram knows the two rows in which he has to put all the pieces in but he doesn’t know how to place them. What is the probability that he puts all the pieces in the right place?

A. 8! 16!
B. 8! (2 × 15!)
C. 8! 15!
D. (2 × 8!) 16!
E. None of these
Answer» C. 8! 15!
11.

There are total 18 balls in a bag. Out of them 6 are red in colour, 4 are green in colour and 8 are blue in colour. If Vishal picks three balls randomly from the bag, then what will be the probability that all the three balls are not of the same colour?

A. 95 102
B. 19 23
C. 21 26
D. 46 51
E. None of these
Answer» E. None of these
12.

A bag contains 35 balls of three different colors viz. red, orange and pink. The ratio of red balls to orange balls is 3 : 2, respectively and probability of choosing a pink ball is 3/7. If two balls are picked from the bag, then what is the probability that one ball is orange and one ball is pink?

A. 24 119
B. 60 119
C. 96 595
D. 3 17
E. None of these
Answer» B. 60 119
13.

The names of 5 students from section A, 6 students from section B and 7 students from section C were selected. The age of all the 18 students was different. Again, one name was selected from them and it was found that it was of section B. What was the probability that it was the youngest student of the section B?

A. 1 18
B. 1 15
C. 1 6
D. 1 12
E. None of these
Answer» D. 1 12