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
(A) 4/23 (B)6/23(C)8/23 (D)17/23
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
(A) 1/5 (B)3/5 (C)4/5 (D)1/3
A girl calculates 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?
(A) 40 (B) 240 (C) 480 (D) 750
The probability of getting a bad egg in a lot of 400 is 0.035. The number of bad eggs in the lot is
(A) 7 (B) 14 (C) 21 (D) 28
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
(A) 4 (B) 13 (C) 48 (D) 51
If P(A) denotes the probability of an event A, then
(A) P(A) < 0 (B) P(A) > 1 (C) 0 ≤ P(A) ≤ 1 (D) –1 ≤ P(A) ≤ 1
The probability expressed as a percentage of a particular occurrence can never be
(A) less than 100 (B) less than 0(C) greater than 1 (D) anything but a whole number
If the probability of an event is p, the probability of its complementary event will be
(A) p – 1 (B) p (C) 1 – p (D) 1-1/p
An event is very unlikely to happen. Its probability is closest to
(A) 0.0001 (B) 0.001 (C) 0.01 (D) 0.1