Quantitative Aptitude

General Questions

1.  Three unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most two heads?

A. 3/4
B. 1/4
C. 3/8
D. 7/8
2.  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. 1/3
B. 3/4
C. 7/19
D. 8/21
E. 9/21
3.  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. 1/2
B. 2/5
C. 8/15
D. 9/20
4.  A bag contains 6 black and 8 white balls. One ball is drawn at random. What is the probability that the ball drawn is white?

A. 3/4
B. 4/7
C. 1/8
D. 3/7
5.  A bag contains 4 white, 5 red and 6 blue balls. Three balls are drawn at random from the bag. The probability that all of them are red, is:

A. 1/22
B. 3/22
C. 2/91
D. 2/77
6.  A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. The probability of getting a queen of club or a king of heart is:

A. 1/13
B. 2/13
C. 1/26
D. 1/52
7.  One card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability that the card drawn is a face card (Jack, Queen and King only)?

A. 1/13
B. 3/13
C. 1/4
D. 9/52
8.  Two cards are drawn together from a pack of 52 cards. The probability that one is a spade and one is a heart, is:

A. 3/20
B. 29/34
C. 47/100
D. 13/102
9.  A bag contains 2 red, 3 green and 2 blue balls. Two balls are drawn at random. What is the probability that none of the balls drawn is blue?

A. 10/21
B. 11/21
C. 2/7
D. 5/7
10.  What is the probability of getting a sum 9 from two throws of a dice?

A. 1/6
B. 1/8
C. 1/9
D. 1/12