This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Science > Mathematics > Class 12 Mathematics Chapter 13 Probability – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Mathematics Chapter 13 Probability Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The probability of winning a game is 1:12. If Jada plays the game 60 times, how many times could she expect to win? A) 12. B) 5. C) 10. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 2. How many permutations can be made using the letters D E C I M A L? A) 21 permutations. B) 720 permutations. C) 5040 permutations. D) 1 permuation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5040 permutations. 3. Kamalam went to play a lucky draw contest. 135 tickets of the lucky draw were sold. If the probability of Kamalam winning is 1/9, then the number of tickets bought by Kamalam is A) 10. B) 15. C) 20. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 15. 4. Bailey tossed a coin 10 times. The results were 7 heads and 3 tails. What is the experimental probability of tossing tails? A) 3/7. B) 3/10. C) 1/2. D) 1/3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3/10. 5. The spinner shown is divided into congruent sections that are labeled from 1 through 7. If the spinner is spun one time, what is the probability of the arrow NOT landing on a section labeled with an odd number? A) 1/4. B) 3/4. C) 3/7. D) 4/7. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3/7. 6. You flip a coin. What is the probability of getting heads? A) 100%. B) 50%. C) 25%. D) 0. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 50%. 7. The mean of 100 observations is 40 and their standard deviation is 3. The sum of squares of all deviations is A) 30000. B) 40000. C) 160000. D) 160900. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 160900. 8. Probability is a measure of ..... A) The fairness of a game. B) Predictions. C) The way we keep records. D) How likely or unlikely something is. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How likely or unlikely something is. 9. On a six sided die, what is the probability of rolling a 3 OR a number greater than 4? A) $\frac{1}{3}$. B) $\frac{5}{6}$. C) $\frac{1}{2}$. D) $\frac{2}{3}$. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) $\frac{1}{2}$. 10. Dependent probability happens when the first item is not replaced, causing the total outcomes to decrease by 1. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 11. An equally likely chance for an event to occur is what number? A) 100. B) .5. C) 0. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) .5. 12. A chance of something happening is called ..... A) Probability. B) Outcome. C) Event. D) Independent event. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Probability. 13. A bag of Skittles has 7 red Skittles and 3 yellow Skittles. Which best describes the likelihood of choosing a red Skittle? A) Unlikely to choose a red Skittle. B) Equally likely to choose a red Skittle as choosing a yellow Skittle. C) Likely to choose a red Skittle. D) Certain to choose a red Skittle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Likely to choose a red Skittle. 14. Which is an example of experimental probability? A) The spinner landed on three 7 out of 10 times (7/10). B) The probability of landing on tails is 1/2. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The spinner landed on three 7 out of 10 times (7/10). 15. Marty can go to one movie on either Friday or Saturday. His choice of movies includes a comedy or an action movie. Which list shows all of the possible outcomes of one movie on one day? A) Comedy, FridayComedy, SaturdayAction, FridayAction, Saturday. B) Action, FridayAction, Saturday. C) Comedy, FridayAction, Friday. D) Comedy, ActionAction, ComedyFriday, SaturdaySaturday, Friday. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comedy, FridayComedy, SaturdayAction, FridayAction, Saturday. 16. A page is selected at random from a book. The probability that the digit at units place of the page number chosen is less than 7 is A) 3/9. B) 7/10. C) 7/9. D) 3/10. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7/10. 17. An urn contains 15 white balls and 25 blue balls. If Margarette will pick a ball at random, what is the probability that it is a blue ball? A) 3/5. B) 3/8. C) 5/8. D) 2/5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 5/8. 18. Find the probability that a leap year chosen at random will contain 53 sundays. A) 3/7. B) 2/7. C) 1/49. D) 1/7. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2/7. 19. If A, B and C are mutually exclusive and exhaustive events, then P(A)+P(B)+P(C) equals to ..... A) 0. B) 1/3. C) 1. D) Any value between 0 and 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1. 20. An event has a 0% chance of happening. This event is ..... A) Certain. B) Unlikely. C) Impossible. D) As likely as not. E) Likely. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Impossible. 21. The probability of rolling an even number on a dice. A) 5/6. B) 3/6. C) 1/6. D) 1/2. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1/2. 22. Colored Cubes:How likely is it to draw a yellow cube vs. a green cube? A) More likely. B) Equally likely. C) Less likely. D) Highly likely. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Less likely. 23. What is the probability that you will have dinner in Australia tonight? A) 1/4. B) 1/2. C) 1. D) 0. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 0. 24. "The sun will rise in the morning" A) Somewhat Likely. B) Certain. C) Not Very Likely. D) Impossible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Certain. 25. Two marbles are randomly drawn from a bag containing 3 purple, 1 blue, and 1 yellow marble. The first marble is blue and is not replaced. Find the probability of drawing a second marble that is purple. A) 2/5. B) 3/20. C) 3/4. D) 3/5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3/4. 26. Classify each pair of events as dependent or independent. Roll a number cube. Then toss a coin. A) Independent. B) Dependent. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Independent. 27. When all outcomes of experiment are equally likely A) Cumulative frequency. B) Uniform probability. C) Probability. D) Relative frequency. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Uniform probability. 28. What is the likelihood a person seen at NLMS is a student? A) Neither likely nor unlikely. B) Impossible. C) Likely. D) Unlikely. E) Certain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Likely. 29. What is the probability of rolling a 5 on a standard 6-sided number cube? A) 1/5. B) 1/6. C) 5/6. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1/6. 30. Probability values are between ..... A) 0 and-1. B) 0 and 1. C) 1 and 100. D) 0.5 and 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0 and 1. 31. A(n) ..... is all the possible outcomes of an experiment. A) Experiment. B) Sample space. C) Event. D) Trial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sample space. 32. When a die is rolled, the die shows a composite number. A) 1/6. B) 1/3. C) 2/3. D) 1/2. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1/3. 33. What is the probability of not getting any head in tossing 2 coins? A) $\frac{1}{4}$. B) $\frac{3}{4}$. C) $1$. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) $\frac{1}{4}$. 34. Number Tiles:What is the probability of choosing a 7? A) 7%. B) 0.1. C) 3/7. D) 7/10. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0.1. 35. If an event has a probability of 0.25, then it is said to be ..... A) Certain. B) Impossible. C) Unlikely. D) Likely. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unlikely. 36. When calculating experimental probability, as more trials are conducted, the experimental probability generally gets closer to the theoretical probability. Eventually, the experimental probability will equal theoretical probability. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 37. A slice of bread with butter and jam spread on one side is dropped on the floor. It lands with the jam side facing up. A) Likely. B) Certain. C) Impossible. D) Even chance. E) Unlikely. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Even chance. 38. Roll a die one time. Find P(rolling a 4). A) 1/3. B) 2/3. C) 1/6. D) 2/3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1/6. 39. In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly. What is the probability that it is neither red nor green? A) 9/21. B) 8/21. C) 3/4. D) 7/19. E) 1/3. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 1/3. 40. What are the chances of you getting a seesaw activity to do tomorrow? A) Less likely. B) Impossible. C) Most likely. D) Certain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Most likely. 41. Cindy has three marbles of the same size in her pocket, a green, a blue and a red marble. She puts her hand into her pocket and, without looking, takes out a red marble. A) Certain. B) Unlikely. C) Likely. D) Even chance. E) Impossible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unlikely. 42. From deck of 52 cards, red face cards are removed. From the remaining cards, one card is drawn at random. What is the probability of getting not an ace card? A) 21/23. B) 3/46. C) 2/23. D) 1/52. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 21/23. 43. If you have a spinning wheel with 3-green sectors, 1-blue sector and 1-red sector. What is the probability of getting a green sector? A) 5/5. B) 3/5. C) 2/5. D) 1/5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3/5. 44. In how many ways could you choose two different letters from the letters Q U I Z? A) 10 ways. B) 24 ways. C) 6 ways. D) 120 ways. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 6 ways. 45. The probability of selecting a bad egg is 0.035 from the lot of 400 eggs. So, what is the number of bad eggs in the lot? A) 14. B) 16. C) 20. D) 18. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 14. 46. You mix the letters S E M I T R O P I C A L thoroughly. Without looking, you draw one letter. Find the probability that you select a consonant. Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form. A) 5/12. B) 1/3. C) 7/12. D) 12/5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 7/12. 47. Brooke has a box of crayons. 45 are yellow, 12 are green, 25 are blue, and 7 are red. If Brooke selects a crayon at random, which color crayon would she be most likely to select? A) Red. B) Yellow. C) Green. D) Blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yellow. 48. A set which contains all the elements that are common in two sets is called ..... of sets A) Union. B) Subset. C) Intersection. D) Difference. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intersection. 49. Give the likelihood of each event.Choosing a student and getting a girl or a boy. A) Likely. B) Unlikely. C) Equally likely. D) Certain. E) Impossible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Certain. 50. A box has 3 limes, 5 grapes, and 2 oranges. If you were to randomly select a fruit from this box without looking, what is the probability of not selecting a lime?P (NOT lime) A) 30%. B) 7/10. C) 3/10. D) Answer Not Here. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7/10. 51. Find the probability of not rolling the difference of 1. A) $\frac{5}{18}$. B) $\frac{5}{36}$. C) $\frac{13}{18}$. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) $\frac{13}{18}$. 52. A store is handing out coupons worth 10%, 15%, 20%, or 25% off. Each coupon is equally likely to be handed out. Which of the following models could be used to simulate this situation? A) Flipping a coin four times. B) Spinning a spinner with four equal sections. C) Rolling a number cube labeled one through six four times. D) Rolling a number cube labeled one through six one time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spinning a spinner with four equal sections. 53. Sample space describes all the possible ..... for an event. A) Probabilities. B) Outcomes. C) Numbers. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Outcomes. 54. You pick a shirt from a bag containing 1 red, 1 green, 1 blue, and 1 yellow shirt. What is the probability of NOT picking blue? A) 0. B) 2/4. C) 3/4. D) 1/4. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3/4. 55. If p:q are the odds in favor of an event, then the probability of that event is ..... A) $\frac{p}{q}$. B) $\frac{p}{p+q}$. C) $\frac{q}{p+q}$. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) $\frac{p}{p+q}$. 56. An algebra 2 test has 5 multiple choice questions with four choices with one correct answer each. If we just randomly guess on each of the 5 questions, what is the probability that you get at least 1 question correct? A) 0.2373. B) 0.3955. C) 0.6045. D) 0.7627. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 0.7627. 57. There are 5 red marbles, 7 green marbles, 4 black marbles, and 8 blue marbles in a bag. Suppose you select one marble at random.What is the probability of selecting a marble that is not yellow?Write as a percent. Do NOT write the percent sign. A) $100$. B) 100 Mathematical EquivalenceOFF. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) $100$. 58. If a dice has six sides what is the probability of landing on 4 A) 20%. B) 1/5. C) 25%. D) 1/6. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1/6. 59. The chance that an event will happen. A ratio of chance/all chances. A) Odds. B) Tree diagram. C) Probability. D) Outcomes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Probability. 60. The parameters of the hypergeometric distribution are: A) N, n, p. B) N, n, np. C) N, n, k. D) N and p. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) N, n, k. Next →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesClass 12 QuizzesClass 12 Mathematics Chapter 13 Probability Quiz 2Class 12 Mathematics Chapter 13 Probability Quiz 3Class 12 Mathematics Chapter 13 Probability Quiz 4Class 12 Mathematics Chapter 13 Probability Quiz 5Class 12 Mathematics Chapter 13 Probability Quiz 6Class 12 Mathematics Chapter 13 Probability Quiz 7Class 12 Mathematics Chapter 13 Probability Quiz 8Class 12 Mathematics Chapter 13 Probability Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books