This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Science > Mathematics > Class 12 Mathematics Chapter 13 Probability – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Mathematics Chapter 13 Probability Quiz 9 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The sum of all deviations of the data from its mean is A) Always positive. B) Always negative. C) Non-zero integer. D) Zero. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Zero. 2. A box contains 5 purple marbles, 3 green marbles and 2 orange marbles. They will draw 2 times and draws are made without replacement. What is the Probability of both marbles being purple? A) 1/3. B) 1/4. C) 1/2. D) 2/9. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 2/9. 3. Roll the Dice:Is it more or less likely to roll a 2 than a 4? A) More likely. B) Equally likely. C) Less likely. D) Impossible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Equally likely. 4. A bag contains 4 white counters, 6 black counters, and 1 green counter. What is the probability of drawing a black counter? A) 1/3. B) 6/11. C) 1/6. D) 1/4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 6/11. 5. A die is thrown once. What is the probability of getting a composite number A) 1/2. B) 1/6. C) 1/3. D) 5/6. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1/3. 6. Find the probability of drawing multiple of 5 in red. A) $\frac{1}{13}$. B) $\frac{1}{26}$. C) $\frac{2}{13}$. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) $\frac{1}{13}$. 7. A box contains 4 blue, 3 red, 2black balls. If two balls are selected at random from the box, what is the probability that one is blue and one is red ball? A) 1/9. B) 2/3. C) 1/3. D) 1/6. E) 2/9. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1/3. 8. Audrey is eating dinner at a buffet restaurant. She can choose between 4 meats, 10 veggies, 3 salads, and 8 desserts. How many different dinners can she make? A) 25. B) 83. C) 120. D) 960. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 960. 9. Mrs. McGinnis has a bag that contains 30 pieces of candy. There are 15 grape, 7 cherry, 3 lemon, 5 strawberry. What is the probability that she grabs a lemon? A) 3. B) 30%. C) 1/10. D) 3/10. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1/10. 10. Mark is playing a board game with his friends. There are six of them playing. What is the probability that Mark will NOT win the board game? A) 1/3. B) 5/6. C) 1/2. D) 1/6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5/6. 11. A bottle contains 8 marbles, 3 are red and 5 are blue. You are to take a marble from the bottle without looking. What is the probability that you pick a red marble? A) 3/5. B) 1/3. C) 3/8. D) 5/8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3/8. 12. A card is randomly drawn from a standard deck of 52 playing cards. What is the probability that the card drawn is not a heart? A) 1/4. B) 3/13. C) 3/4. D) 1/2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3/4. 13. Give the likelihood of each event.A spinner labeled 1-12 landing on a number less than 4. A) Likely. B) Unlikely. C) Equally likely. D) Certain. E) Impossible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unlikely. 14. How do you find compound probability? A) Add your probabilities. B) Multiply your probabilities. C) Divide your probabilities. D) Subtract your probabilities. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Multiply your probabilities. 15. Is this binomial experiment? Shuffle a deck of 52 cards. Turn over the top card. Put the card back in the deck, shuffle again. Repeat the process 50 times. Let x = the number of aces you observe. A) Yes. B) No, the trials are not independent. C) No, there are more than 2 outcomes. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 16. In a school club there are 3 freshmen, 5 sophomores, 4 juniors and 7 seniors. One student is chosen at random. What is the probability that the student chosen is a senior? A) 3/19. B) 5/19. C) 4/19. D) 7/19. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7/19. 17. What is the probability of rolling a 2 with a dice? A) 1/6. B) 2/6. C) 1/3. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1/6. 18. What is the likelihood of choosing a marble with a X or O on it? A) Likely. B) Unlikely. C) Certain. D) Impossible. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Certain. 19. When two coins are tossed simultaneously what is the probability of getting no head? A) 1. B) 1/4. C) 2/4. D) 3/4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1/4. 20. 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) 5/21. B) 17/21. C) 4/7. D) 6/7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5/21. 21. Miss Riley is giving out candy. She has tootsie rolls, dumdums, and jolly ranchers. What is the likelihood that someone will get smarties? A) Impossible. B) Certain. C) Likely. D) Unlikely. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Impossible. 22. What is the probability of choosing a red marble if there are 8 red marbles in a jar of 15? A) P = 15/8. B) P = 8/15. C) P = 7/15. D) P = 3/15. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) P = 8/15. 23. Solve:9, 376 + 2, 548 =? A) 11, 924. B) 11, 823. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 11, 924. 24. 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. What is the probability your choice will include popcorn? A) 6/8. B) 8/8. C) 2/8. D) 4/8. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4/8. 25. Let n = 20, q = .6, Find the probability of 12 successes. A) 3.55%. B) 24%. C) 35.55%. D) 12.90%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3.55%. 26. When all the probabilities in a probability model are not equivalent to each other A) Tree diagram. B) Uniform probability model. C) Probability model. D) Non-uniform probability model. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Non-uniform probability model. 27. Barry Bonds has a career batting average of .298. What is the probability that he will get 6 hits in his next 10 at-bats? A) 100%. B) 5.46%. C) 3.58%. D) 22.67%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3.58%. 28. ..... one trial of a probability experiment A) Frequency. B) Event. C) Outcome. D) Sample Space. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Event. 29. Number Tiles:If you know the theoretical probability of selecting any given tile is 1/10, how many of each number would you expect to select if you choose tiles from the bag 40 times. A) 4. B) 10. C) There is absolutely no way of guessing the probability. More information is needed. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 30. An event has a 50% chance of happening. This event is ..... A) Likely. B) Certain. C) Unlikely. D) Impossible. E) As likely as not. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) As likely as not. 31. The probability that it will rain tomorrow is 0.85. What is the probability that it will not rain tomorrow? A) 0. B) 1-0.85. C) 0.85. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1-0.85. 32. Deon has 7 white chips, 5 red chips, and 8 blue chips in a bag. Without looking, Deon pulls a chip out, records the color, and puts it back in the bag. He does this 200 times. About how many times could Deon expect to pull out a blue chip? A) 80. B) 25. C) 55. D) 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 80. 33. Which of the following scenarios does not have 144 different combinations? A) A travel agency has 4 different vacation destinations, 3 different flights, and 12 hotel options. B) You have 8 shirts, 6 pairs of pants, and 3 pairs of pants. C) A restaurant has 12 main dishes, 6 side dishes, and 2 dessert options. D) An instrument shop has 80 brass instruments, 39 woodwind instruments, and 25 percussion instruments. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An instrument shop has 80 brass instruments, 39 woodwind instruments, and 25 percussion instruments. 34. You spin a spinner with 4 equal sections labeled a, b, c, and d. Describe the likelihood of landing on any section. A) The chance of landing on each section is equal. B) There is no chance of landing on any section. C) There is a greater chance of landing on a vowel. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The chance of landing on each section is equal. 35. Out of 300 students in a school, 95 play cricket only, 120 play football only, 80 play volleyball only and 5 play no games. If one student is chosen at random, find the probability that(ii) he plays either cricket or volleyball A) 2/5. B) 4/15. C) 1/5. D) 7/12. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7/12. 36. You roll a 6 sided dice 6 times and get this data:first-3 second-5 third-3 fourth-2 fifth-3 sixth-5. Which number did you roll the LEAST? A) 5. B) 1. C) 2. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 37. Which of the following has a certain likelihood of occurring? A) A field goal will be made by the kicker. B) There is a 70% of rain on Monday. C) Next month has at least 29 days. D) A coin will land on either heads or tails. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A coin will land on either heads or tails. 38. A bag contains 8 red marbles and 7 green marbles. What is the probability of getting a green ball? A) 8/15. B) 1/7. C) 1/8. D) 7/15. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7/15. 39. A bag contains 4 red, 5 black and 6 white balls. A ball is drawn from the bag at random. Find the probability that the ball drawn is:(iii) not black A) 1/3. B) 2/3. C) 1. D) 0. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1/3. 40. A sports bag contains 3 tennis balls, 4 baseballs, and 8 golf balls. Each is equally likely to be chosen. Which of the following models could be used to simulate this situation? A) Flipping a coin fifteen times. B) Spinning a spinner with three equal sections. C) Choosing from 3 red marbles, 4 yellow marbles, and 8 blue marbles. D) Rolling a number cube labeled one through six fifteen times. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Choosing from 3 red marbles, 4 yellow marbles, and 8 blue marbles. 41. A bag contains 4 red, 5 black and 6 white balls. A ball is drawn from the bag at random. Find the probability that the ball drawn is:(ii) red A) 3/5. B) 1/3. C) 4/15. D) 6/15. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4/15. 42. A biased Die is thrown 30 times and the number of Sixes seen is 8. If the die is thrown a further 12 times find the probability that a six will occur exactly twice A) 0.256. B) 0.211. C) 0.29. D) 0.274. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0.211. 43. Noah has a fair 12-sided number cube with one of the numbers from 1 to 12 on each face. If he rolls the cube 156 times, how many times should Noah roll a prime number? A) 4. B) 65. C) 52. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 52. 44. A coin purse contains:-8 quarters-6 dimes-4 pennies-12 nickelsA coin will be drawn from the coin purse and replaced. What is the probability the coin selected will NOT be a nickel? A) $\frac{2}{5}$ $\frac{1}{3}$. B) $\frac{1}{3}$ $\frac{2}{3}$. C) $\frac{3}{5}$ $\frac{2}{5}$. D) $\frac{2}{5}$ $\frac{3}{5}$. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) $\frac{3}{5}$ $\frac{2}{5}$. 45. A bag contains 4 red, 5 black and 6 white balls. A ball is drawn from the bag at random. Find the probability that the ball drawn is:(iv) red or white. A) 2/3. B) 4/3. C) 3/3. D) 1/3. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 2/3. 46. Give the likelihood of each event.There is an 80% chance of rain. A) Likely. B) Unlikely. C) Equally likely. D) Certain. E) Impossible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Likely. 47. If the probability of drawing a short straw is 3/10 and there are 100 straws in all, how many short straws must there be? A) 10. B) 30. C) 13. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 30. 48. ..... probability is what you predict will happen. A) Experimental. B) Theoretical. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Theoretical. 49. A committee of three is to be chosen from a group of 3 men and 4 women.The probability of all the three being women is A) 31/35. B) 34/35. C) 4/35. D) 3/35. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 4/35. 50. The two mutually exclusive outcomes in a Bernoulli trial are usually called: A) Variable and constant. B) Success and failure. C) Mean and variance. D) With and without replacement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Success and failure. 51. Two balls are drawn from a bag containing 5 white and 7 black balls at random. What is the probability that both are of different colors? A) 30/66. B) 12/66. C) 1. D) 35/66. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 35/66. 52. A letter is randomly chosen from the word MERCY. What is the probability that it will be a vowel? A) 4/5. B) 2/5. C) 1/5. D) 3/5. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1/5. 53. An event with a probability of impossible would be ..... A) 0. B) 1/2. C) 2/3. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 0. 54. Nosipho has ten marbles of the same size in her pocket, 6 white and 4 red marbles. She takes out a white marble when she puts her hand in her pocket without looking. A) Certain. B) Unlikely. C) Even chance. D) Likely. E) Impossible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Likely. 55. The probability of an event is 0.74. Describe the likelihood of the event. A) Certain. B) Likely. C) Equally likely/unlikely. D) Unlikely. E) Impossible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Likely. 56. If P is the probability of an event, what is the probability of its complement? A) 1-1/P. B) P-1. C) 1-P. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1-P. 57. A situation involving chance that leads to results, or outcomes A) Compound event. B) Probability. C) Simple event. D) Experiment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Experiment. 58. The outcome of the second event does not depend upon the outcome of the first event A) Impossible. B) Dependent. C) Independent. D) Sample space. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Independent. 59. What is the probability of getting tails when tossing a coin? A) 1. B) 0.5. C) 0.25. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 0.5. 60. 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