This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Science > Mathematics > Class 12 Mathematics Chapter 13 Probability – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Mathematics Chapter 13 Probability Quiz 10 (59 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ten balls numbered one through ten are placed in an urn. One ball is selected at random. P(not a 6) = A) 6/10. B) 9/10. C) 1/10. D) 4/10. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9/10. 2. If P(A)=0, then the event A ..... A) Will always happen. B) May not happen. C) Will never happen. D) May happen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Will never happen. 3. You roll a 6 sided dice 5 times and get this data:first-3 second-5 third-3 fourth-2 fifth-3. Which number would be impossible to roll? A) 5. B) 2. C) 1. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1. 4. The probability that Kathy will not be hired in her job is 1/3 . What is the probability that she will be hired? A) 1/3. B) 1/4. C) 1/2. D) 2/3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2/3. 5. Which word describes the likelihood of this event:In January in Virginia, it will snow at least once. A) Certain. B) Likely. C) Equally Likely. D) Impossible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Likely. 6. Probabilities must be between: A) 0 and 1. B) 0 and 10. C) -1 and 1. D) .01 and .99. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 0 and 1. 7. Which of the following statement is not true about probability? A) The probability of an impossible event is 0. B) Probability can be greater than 1 or less than 0. C) Probability cannot be greater than 1. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Probability can be greater than 1 or less than 0. 8. Dr. Bliss is at Milk N' Honey in Canton, Oh waiting to order a sundae. They offer 6 different flavors of ice cream and 8 different toppings. How many choice does she have for a single serving with one topping? A) 48. B) 42. C) 40. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 48. 9. Three cards are picked from a pack of cards. What is the probability that all the three cards are picked are of different suits? A) 169/525. B) 169/425. C) 169/1700. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 169/425. 10. In the word 'EDUCATION' find the probability of getting a consonant. A) 3/9. B) 1/9. C) 4/9. D) 5/9. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4/9. 11. If the outcome of one event has no effect on the outcome of a second event, then the two events are called ..... A) Probability. B) Independent Events. C) Conditional probability. D) Dependent events. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Independent Events. 12. The sum of all frequencies up to and including the current one A) Probability. B) Cumulative frequency. C) Event. D) Frequency table. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cumulative frequency. 13. When figuring the probability of an event, what number goes on the bottom of your fraction? A) The number of the desired event. B) The total number of choices. C) The event that happens the most. D) The even that happens the least. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The total number of choices. 14. A bag contains 5 white and 7 red balls. One ball is drawn at random. What is the probability that ball drawn is white? A) 9/12. B) 5/12. C) 7/12. D) 3/12. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5/12. 15. Ten cards numbered 1 through 10 mixed together and then one card is drawn. If you draw 80 times, how many times would you pick a number less than 5? A) $32$. B) 32 Mathematical EquivalenceON. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) $32$. 16. Rolling a 15 on a 6-sided number cube is A) Impossible. B) Certain. C) Unlikely. D) Equally Likely. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Impossible. 17. During the first several rounds of a golfing league, Anthony made par or better on 32 out of 80 holes. Based on this relative frequency, how many pars or better could he be expected to make on the remaining 160 holes? A) 64 pars or better. B) 54 pars or better. C) 70 pars or better. D) 60 pars or better. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 64 pars or better. 18. What is the likelihood an NLMS student is a 7th grader? A) Impossible. B) Neither likely nor unlikely. C) Unlikely. D) Likely. E) Certain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unlikely. 19. Solve:947 + 856 =? A) 1, 793. B) 1, 803. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1, 803. 20. In how many ways could you choose two different letters from the letters S T U D Y? A) 18 ways. B) 6 ways. C) 360 ways. D) 10 ways. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 10 ways. 21. P(A/B') is defined only when ..... A) B is not an impossible event. B) B is not a sure event. C) B is a sure event. D) B is an impossible event. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B is not a sure event. 22. A number cube is labeled 1 through 6. What is the probability of not rolling a 3? A) 1/6. B) 5/6. C) 1/5. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5/6. 23. How likely are you to choose a yellow marble out of a jar, if there are 6 blue, 2 red, and 4 yellow? A) P = 6/12. B) P = 4/10. C) P = 1/3. D) P = 2/12. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) P = 1/3. 24. In a binomial probability distribution, If n = 6 and p= 0.9 then the value of P(x=7) is: A) 1. B) 3. C) 0. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 0. 25. Dependent or Independent:You flip a coin and then roll a fair six-sided die. The coin lands heads-up and the die shows a one. A) Dependent. B) Independent. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Independent. 26. You are going to the movies. You can pick one movie:The Grinch or Wreck-it-Ralph 2. You can pick one snack:popcorn or candy. You can pick one soda:Coke or Sprite. How many total combinations are there? A) 8. B) 16. C) 2. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8. 27. An event that consists of two or more events A) Event. B) Dependent events. C) Experiment. D) Compound event. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compound event. 28. Probabilities are always between ..... A) 1 & 100. B) 2 & 1. C) 0 & 1 or 0% & 100%. D) 0 & 100 or 0% & 1%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 0 & 1 or 0% & 100%. 29. Kirsten is setting up tables for a party. Four of the tables are covered with red tablecloths, and eight of the tables are covered with white tablecloths. Guests will be randomly seated at the tables when they arrive. Each table can seat 8 guests. That is the probability that the first guest to arrive will be seated at a table with a red tablecloth? A) 1/8. B) 1/4. C) 1/2. D) 1/3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1/3. 30. Ten cards are numbered 1 through 10 mixed together and then one card is drawn. If you draw cards 180 times, how many times would you predict to pick a number that is divisible by 3? A) $54$. B) 54 Mathematical EquivalenceON. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) $54$. 31. Bella will roll a number cube, labeled 1 through 6, 300 times. About how many times could Bella expect to roll a number less than 4? A) 200. B) 50. C) 100. D) 150. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 150. 32. One card is drawn from a standard deck of 52 cards. What is the probability that the card drawn is a face card? A) 1/13. B) 3/13. C) 5/13. D) 1/4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3/13. 33. Cards are numbered from 5 to 14. These cards are shuffled and one card is drawn at random. What is the probability of getting card numbered perfect square? A) 1/15. B) 1/10. C) 1/15. D) 1/5. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1/10. 34. The probability of a car having a defect when coming off the assembly line is 3/1000 . Last year 12 cars had defects. How many cars were manufactured in total last year? A) 3000. B) 4000. C) 2000. D) 1000. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 4000. 35. Which of the following expressions would be used to calculate the complement of an event occurring? A) 1-P(event). B) P(event)-1. C) P(event)/possible outcomes. D) P(event 1) x P(event 2). Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1-P(event). 36. The probability of randomly selecting a rotten apple is 0.18 from the heap of 900 apples. So, what is the number of rotten apples in a heap? A) 162. B) 164. C) 160. D) 136. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 162. 37. A bag contains 2 blue marbles, 7 green marbles, and 8 yellow marbles. Twice you draw a marble and replace it. Find P(blue, then green). A) 9/17. B) 14/289. C) 14/17. D) 9/289. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 14/289. 38. A, B and C are 3 mutually exclusive and exhaustive events such that P(A)=2P(B)=3P(C). What is P(B)? A) 6/11. B) 3/11. C) 1/3. D) 1/6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3/11. 39. A bag contains:-5 red marbles-6 blue marbles-3 green marbles-4 black marbles-2 yellow marblesA marble will be drawn from the bag and replaced 100 times. What is a reasonable prediction for the number of times a green or black marble will be drawn? A) 7. B) 14. C) 65. D) 35. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 35. 40. Find the probability of drawing a 10 of red from the deck of cards. A) $\frac{1}{26}$. B) $\frac{1}{13}$. C) $\frac{1}{52}$. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) $\frac{1}{26}$. 41. A die is rolled, what is the probability that the number rolled is greater than 2? A) 1/3. B) 2/3. C) 1/2. D) 1/4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2/3. 42. The probability of something NOT happening is a ..... A) Sub-Set. B) Complement. C) Empirical Probability. D) Outcome. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complement. 43. The likelihood of an event happening is ..... A) Percentage. B) Probability. C) Parallel. D) Predictions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Probability. 44. Gabriel has these cans of soup in his kitchen cabinet.* 2 cans of tomato soup* 3 cans of chicken soup* 2 cans of cheese soup* 2 cans of potato soup* 1 can of beef soupGabriel will randomly choose one can of soup. Then he will put it back and randomly choose another can of soup. What is the probability that he will choose a can of tomato soup and then a can of cheese soup? A) 1/5. B) 2/45. C) 2/5. D) 1/25. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 1/25. 45. A tree-shaped diagram that illustrates the possible outcomes of a given situation A) Tree diagram. B) Stem and leaf plot. C) Histogram. D) Experiment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tree diagram. 46. You roll a standard number cube once. What is the probability of not rolling a 6? A) $\frac{5}{6}$. B) $\frac{1}{3}$. C) $\frac{1}{6}$. D) $\frac{1}{2}$. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) $\frac{5}{6}$. 47. 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) 2/5. B) 8/15. C) 1/2. D) 9/20. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 9/20. 48. A movie theater sells three sizes of popcorn (small, medium, and large), three types of soda (Coke, Diet Coke, and Sprite), and two types of candy (M & Ms and Skittles). How many different combinations of one size popcorn, one type of drink, and one type of candy are possible? A) 27. B) 9. C) 18. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 18. 49. A bag has 10 marbles:4 red, 2 green, 2 blue, 2 yellow. If you reach in the bag and pull out one marble, what is the probability it will be a blue marble? A) 2/10 or 1/5. B) 0/10 or 0. C) 10/10 or 1. D) 4/10 or 2/5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2/10 or 1/5. 50. What will be the probability of an impossible event? A) 0. B) 1. C) Infinity. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 0. 51. You have a bag of 3 yellow marbles and 2 red marbles. Are the probabilities uniform? A) No because they are NOT equal. B) No because they are equal. C) Yes because they are equal. D) Yes because they are NOT equal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No because they are NOT equal. 52. Probability (as a decimal) is between which two numbers? A) 0-100. B) 5-10. C) 0-1. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 0-1. 53. 2 or more events that can happen at the same time A) Mutually inclusive event. B) Probaility. C) Compound event. D) Mutually exclusive evetn. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mutually inclusive event. 54. Unionss can be thought of as: A) Or. B) And. C) Not. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Or. 55. A bag contains 30 pieces of candy. There are 15 grape, 7 cherry, 3 lemon, 5 strawberry. What is the probability of drawing a lemon? *Remember to simplify* A) 3/10. B) 3. C) 1/10. D) 30%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1/10. 56. Write 3/8 as a decimal. A) 0.375. B) 0.3. C) 0.38. D) 3.8. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 0.375. 57. If the probability of an event is $\frac{5}{10}$ A) The event will never ocurr. B) The is a small chance that the event will occur. C) The event is likely to occur. D) The event will definitely occur. E) The event will be likely as it is not to occur. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) The event will be likely as it is not to occur. 58. Which probability is false? A) Flipping a coin and getting heads = 1/2. B) Picking a letter in the alphabet randomly = 1/26. C) Picking a diamond in a deck of cards = 1/3. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Picking a diamond in a deck of cards = 1/3. 59. If eight coins are tossed together, then find the probability of getting more heads than tails? A) 91/256. B) 93/256. C) 95/256. D) None of these. 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