Welcome to your Probability MCQs Mock Test of 10th Class Mathematics
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Q1. Cards bearing numbers 3 to 20 are placed in a bag and mixed thoroughly. A card is taken out from the bag at random. The probability that the number on the card taken out is an even number, is
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Q2. The probability of event equal to zero is called;
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Q3. The probability of getting a consonant from the word MAHIR is
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Q4. The probability that cannot exist among the following:
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Q5. An Event is very unlikely to happen. Its Probability is closest to :
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Q6. If P(E) = 0.07, then what is the probability of ‘not E’?
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Q7. If the probability of an event is p, then the probability of its complementary event will be :
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Q8. A bag has 3 red balls and 5 green balls. If we take a ball from the bag, then what is the probability of getting red balls only?
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Q9. A bag has 5 white marbles, 8 red marbles and 4 purple marbles. If we take a marble randomly, then what is the probability of not getting purple marble?
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Q10. A dice is thrown in the air. The probability of getting odd numbers is
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Q11. If we throw two coins in the air, then the probability of getting both tails will be:
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Q12. If two dice are thrown in the air, the probability of getting sum as 3 will be
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Q13. A card is drawn from the set of 52 cards. Find the probability of getting a queen card.
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Q14. A fish tank has 5 male fish and 8 female fish. The probability of fish taken out is a male fish:
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Q15. The sum of the probabilities of all the elementary events of an experiment is
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Q16. A card is selected at random from a well shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. The probability of its being a face card is
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Q17. If an event cannot occur, then its probability is
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Q18. An event is very unlikely to happen. Its probability is closest to
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Q19. If P(A) denotes the probability of an event A, then
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Q20. The probability that a non leap year selected at random will contain 53 Sundays is
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Q21. If the probability of an event is p, the probability of its complementary event will be
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Q22. A card is drawn from a deck of 52 cards. The event E is that card is not an ace of hearts. The number of outcomes favourable to E is
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Q23. The probability of getting a bad egg in a lot of 400 is 0.035. The number of bad eggs in the lot is
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Q24. Two players, Sangeeta and Reshma, play a tennis match. It is known that the probability of Sangeeta winning the match is 0.62. The probability of Reshma winning the match is
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Q 25. A girl calculate that the probability of her winning the first prize in a lottery is 0.08. If 6000 tickets are sold, how many tickets has she bought?
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Q26. The probability that a non-leap year selected at random will contain 53 Sundays is:
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Q 27. One ticket is drawn at random from a bag containing tickets numbered 1 to 40. The probability that the selected ticket has a number which is a multiple of 5 is:
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Q27. The total number of events of throwing 10 coins simultaneously is
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Q 28. Someone is asked to take a number from 1 to 100. The probability that it is a prime is:
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Q29. If an event that cannot occur, then its probability is :
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Q 30. A school has five houses A, B, C, D and E. A class has 23 students, 4 from house A, 8 from house B, 5 from house C, 2 from house D and rest from house E. A single student is selected at random to be the class monitor. The probability that the selected student is not from A, B and C is:
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Q31. The total events to throw three dice simultaneously is
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Q32. Which of the following cannot be the probability of an event ?
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Q33. A girl calculates that the probability of her winning the first prize in a lottery is 8100. If 6,000 tickets are sold, how many tickets has she bought?
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Q34. If P(A) denotes the probability of an event A, then :
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Q35. If a card is selected from a deck of 52 cards, then the probability of its being a red face card is :
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Q36. Which of the following can be the probability of an event?
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Q37. The letters of the word SOCIETY are placed at random in a row. The probability of getting a vowel is
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Q38. The probability expressed as a percentage of a particular occurrence can never be :
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Q39. If two different dice are rolled together, the probability of getting an even number on both dice is:
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Q 40. The probability that a number selected at random from the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, …, 15 is a multiple of 4 is
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Q 41. An event is very unlikely to happen. Its probability is closest to:
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Q 42. If the probability of an event is P, the probability of its complementary event will be:
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Q 43. In a family of 3 children, the probability of having atleast one boy is:
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Q 44. If P(A) denotes the probability of an event then:
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Q 45. A card is selected from a deck of 52 cards. The probability of its being a red face card is:
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Q 46. The probability than a non-leap year selected at random will contain 53 Sundays is:
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Q 47. When a die is thrown, the probability of getting an odd number less them 3 is:
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Q 48. A card is drawn from a deck of 52 cards. The event E is that card is not an ace of hearts. The number of outcomes favourable to E is:
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Q 49. The probability of getting a bad egg in a lot of 400 is 0.035. The number of bad eggs in the lot is:
