MATHEMATICS

Daily Practice Problems

CLASS : XIII DPP ON PROBABILITY DPP. NO.- 1
After 1 st Lecture
Q.1 A quadratic equation is chosen from the set of all the quadratic equations which are unchanged by
squaring their roots. The chance that the chosen equation has equal roots is:
(A) 1/2 (B) 1/3 (C) 1/4 (D) 2/3
Q.2 If the letters of the word "MISSISSIPPI" are written down at random in a row, the probability that no
two S's occur together is :
(A) 1/3 (B) 7/33 (C) 6/13 (D) 5/7
Q.3 A sample space consists of 3 sample points with associated probabilities given as 2p, p2, 4p – 1 then
(A) p = 11  3 (B) 10  3 (C) 1/4 < p < 1/2 (D) none
Q.4 A committee of 5 is to be chosen from a group of 9 people. The probability that a certain married couple
will either serve together or not at all is :
(A) 1/2 (B) 5/9 (C) 4/9 (D) 2/3
Q.5 There are only two women among 20 persons taking part in a pleasure trip. The 20 persons are divided
into two groups, each group consisting of 10 persons. Then the probability that the two women will be
in the same group is:
(A) 9/19 (B) 9/38 (C) 9/35 (D) none
Q.6 A bag contain 5 white, 7 black, and 4 red balls, find the chance that three balls drawn at random are all white.
Q.7 If four coins are tossed, find the chance that there should be two heads and two tails.
Q.8 Thirteen persons take their places at a round table, show that it is five to one against two particular
persons sitting together.
Q.9 In shuffling a pack of cards, four are accidentally dropped, find the chance that the missing cards should
be one from each suit.
Q.10 A has 3 shares in a lottery containing 3 prizes and 9 blanks, B has 2 shares in a lottery containing 2 prizes
and 6 blanks. Compare their chances of success.
Q.11 There are three works, one consisting of 3 volumes, one of 4 and the other of one volume. They are placed
on a shelf at random, prove that the chance that volumes of the same works are all together is 3/140.
Q.12 The letter forming the word Clifton are placed at random in a row. What is the chance that the two
vowels come together?
Q.13 Consider a function f (x) that has zeroes 4 and 9. Given that Mr. A randomly selects a number from the
set {– 10, – 9, – 8, ..... 8, 9, 10}, what is the probability that Mr. A chooses a zero of f (x 2)?
Q.14 There are 'm' rupees and 'n' ten nP's, placed at random in a line. Find the chance of the extreme coins
being both ten nP's.
Q.15 A fair die is tossed. If the number is odd, find the probability that it is prime.
Q.16 Three fair coins are tossed. If both heads and tails appear, determine the probability that exactly one
head appears.
Q.17 3 boys and 3 girls sit in a row. Find the probability that (i) the 3 girls sit together. (ii) the boys are girls sit
in alternative seats.
Q.18 A coin is biased so that heads is three times as likely to appear as tails. Find P (H) and P (T).
Q.19 In a hand at "whist" what is the chance that the 4 kings are held by a specified player?
Q.20 The probability that a positive two digit number selected at random has its tens digit at least three more
then its unit digit is
(A) 14/45 (B) 7/45 (C) 36/45 (D) 1/6
 MATHEMATICS
Daily Practice Problems
CLASS : XIII (XYZ) DPP ON PROBABILITY DPP. NO.- 2
After 2ndLecture
Q.1 Given two independent events A, B such that P (A) = 0.3, P (B) = 0.6. Determine
(i) P (A and B) (ii) P (A and not B) (iii) P (not A and B)
(iv) P (neither A nor B) (v) P (A or B)
Q.2 A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled deck of cards. Find the probability that the card is a
(i) king or a red card (ii) club or a diamond (iii) king or a queen
(iv) king or an ace (v) spade or a club (vi) neither a heart nor a king.
Q.3 A coin is tossed and a die is thrown. Find the probability that the outcome will be a head or a number
greater than 4.
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Q.4 Let A and B be events such that P ( A ) = 4/5, P(B) = 1/3, P(A/B) = 1/6, then
(a) P(A  B) ; (b) P(A  B) ; (c) P(B/A) ; (d) Are A and B independent?
1 1 1
Q.5 If A and B are two events such that P (A) = , P (B) = and P (A and B) = , find
4 2 8
(i) P (A or B), (ii) P (not A and not B)

Q.6 A 5 digit number is formed by using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 without repetition. The probability that the
number is divisible by 6 is :
(A) 8 % (B) 17 % (C) 18 % (D) 36 %

Q.7 An experiment results in four possible out comes S 1, S2, S3 & S4 with probabilities p1, p2, p3 & p4
respectively. Which one of the following probability assignment is possbile.
[Assume S1 S2 S3 S4 are mutually exclusive]
(A) p1 = 0.25 , p2 = 0.35 , p3 = 0.10 , p4 = 0.05
(B) p1 = 0.40 , p2 =  0.20 , p3 = 0.60 , p4 = 0.20
(C) p1 = 0.30 , p2 = 0.60 , p3 = 0.10 , p4 = 0.10
(D) p1 = 0.20 , p2 = 0.30 , p3 = 0.40 , p4 = 0.10

Q.8 In throwing 3 dice, the probability that atleast 2 of the three numbers obtained are same is
(A) 1/2 (B) 1/3 (C) 4/9 (D) none

Q.9 There are 4 defective items in a lot consisting of 10 items. From this lot we select 5 items at random. The
probability that there will be 2 defective items among them is
1 2 5 10
(A) (B) (C) (D)
2 5 21 21
Q.10 From a pack of 52 playing cards, face cards and tens are removed and kept aside then a card is drawn
at random from the ramaining cards. If
A : The event that the card drawn is an ace
H : The event that the card drawn is a heart
S : The event that the card drawn is a spade
then which of the following holds ?
(A) 9 P(A) = 4 P(H) (B) P(S) = 4P (A  H)
(C) 3 P(H) = 4 P(A S) (D) P(H) = 12 P(A S)
Q.11 6 married couples are standing in a room. If 4 people are chosen at random, then the chance that exactly
one married couple is among the 4 is :
16 8 17 24
(A) (B) (C) (D)
33 33 33 33
Q.12 The chance that a 13 card combination from a pack of 52 playing cards is dealt to a player in a game of
bridge, in which 9 cards are of the same suit, is
4 · 13C 9 · 39 C 4 4!·13C9 · 39C 4 13
C 9 · 39 C 4
(A) 52 (B) 52 (C) 52 (D) none
C13 C13 C13
Q.13 If two of the 64 squares are chosen at random on a chess board, the probability that they have a side in
common is :
(A) 1/9 (B) 1/18 (C) 2/7 (D) none
Q.14 Two red counters, three green counters and 4 blue counters are placed in a row in random order. The
probability that no two blue counters are adjacent is
7 7 5
(A) (B) (C) (D) none
99 198 42
Q.15 The probabilities that a student will receive A, B, C or D grade are 0.40, 0.35, 0.15 and 0.10 respectively.
Find the probability that a student will receive
(i) not an A grade (ii) B or C grade (iii) at most C grade
Q.16 In a single throw of three dice, determine the probability of getting
(i) a total of 5 (ii) a total of at most 5 (iii) a total of at least 5.
Q.17 A die is thrown once. If E is the event "the number appearing is a multiple of 3" and F is the event "the
number appearing is even", find the probability of the event "E and F". Are the events E and F independent?
Q.18 In the two dice experiment, if E is the event of getting the sum of number on dice as 11 and F is the event
of getting a number other than 5 on the first die, find P (E and F). Are E and F independent events?
Q.19 A natural number x is randomly selected from the set of first 100 natural numbers. Find the probability
100
that it satisfies the inequality. x+ > 50.
x
Q.20 3 students A and B and C are in a swimming race. A and B have the same probability of winning and each
is twice as likely to win as C. Find the probability that B or C wins. Assume no two reach the winning
point simultaneously.
Q.21 A box contains 7 tickets, numbered from 1 to 7 inclusive. If 3 tickets are drawn from the box without
replacement, one at a time, determine the probability that they are alternatively either odd-even-odd or
even-odd-even.
Q.22 5 different marbles are placed in 5 different boxes randomly. Find the probability that exactly two boxes
remain empty. Given each box can hold any number of marbles.
Q.23 South African cricket captain lost the toss of a coin 13 times out of 14. The chance of this happening was
7 1 13 13
(A) (B) (C) (D)
213 213 214 213
Q.24 There are ten prizes, five A's, three B's and two C's, placed in identical sealed envelopes for the top ten
contestants in a mathematics contest. The prizes are awarded by allowing winners to select an envelope
at random from those remaining. When the 8th contestant goes to select the prize, the probability that the
remaining three prizes are one A, one B and one C, is
(A) 1/4 (B) 1/3 (C) 1/12 (D) 1/10
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Daily Practice Problems
CLASS : XIII (XYZ) DPP ON PROBABILITY DPP. NO.- 3
After 3rd Lecture
Q.1 Whenever horses a, b, c race together, their respective probabilities of winning the race are 0.3, 0.5 and
0.2 respectively. If they race three times the probability that “the same horse wins all the three races” and
the probablity that a, b, c each wins one race, are respectively (Assume dead heat)
8 9 16 3 12 15 10 8
(A) ; (B) , (C) ; (D) ;
50 50 100 100 50 50 50 50
Q.2 Let A & B be two events. Suppose P(A) = 0.4 , P(B) = p & P(A  B) = 0.7. The value of p for which
A & B are independent is :
(A) 1/3 (B) 1/4 (C) 1/2 (D) 1/5

Q.3 A & B are two independent events such that P ( A ) = 0.7, P ( B ) = a & P(A  B) = 0.8, then, a =
(A) 5/7 (B) 2/7 (C) 1 (D) none
Q.4 A pair of numbers is picked up randomly (without replacement) from the set
{1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 17, 19}. The probability that the number 11 was picked given that the sum of
the numbers was even, is nearly :
(A) 0.1 (B) 0.125 (C) 0.24 (D) 0.18
Q.5 For a biased die the probabilities for the diffferent faces to turn up are given below :
Faces : 1 2 3 4 5 6
Probabilities : 0.10 0.32 0.21 0.15 0.05 0.17
The die is tossed & you are told that either face one or face two has turned up. Then the probability that
it is face one is :
(A) 1/6 (B) 1/10 (C) 5/49 (D) 5/21
Q.6 A determinant is chosen at random from the set of all determinants of order 2 with elements 0 or 1 only.
The probability that the determinant chosen has the value non negative is :
(A) 3/16 (B) 6/16 (C) 10/16 (D) 13/16
Q.7 15 coupons are numbered 1, 2, 3,..... , 15 respectively. 7 coupons are selected at random one at a time
with replacement. The probability that the largest number appearing on a selected coupon is 9 is :
6 7 7
9 8 3 97  87
(A)   (B)   (C)   (D)
 16   15  5 157
Q.8 A card is drawn & replaced in an ordinary pack of 52 playing cards. Minimum number of times must a
card be drawn so that there is atleast an even chance of drawing a heart, is
(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 4 (D) more than four

Q.9 An electrical system has open-closed switches

S1, S2 and S3 as shown.

The switches operate independently of one another and the current will flow from A to B either if S1 is
closed or if both S2 and S3 are closed. If P(S1) = P(S2) = P(S3) = 1/2, find the probability that the circuit
will work.
Q.10 A certain team wins with probability 0.7, loses with probability 0.2 and ties with probability 0.1. The
team plays three games. Find the probability
(i) that the team wins at least two of the games, but lose none.
(ii) that the team wins at least one game.
Q.11 An integer is chosen at random from the first 200 positive integers. Find the probability that the integer is
divisible by 6 or 8.
Q.12 A clerk was asked to mail four report cards to four students. He addresses four envelops that unfortunately
paid no attention to which report card be put in which envelope. What is the probability that exactly one
of the students received his (or her) own card?
Q.13 Find the probability of at most two tails or at least two heads in a toss of three coins.
Q.14 What is the probability that in a group of
(i) 2 people, both will have the same date of birth.
(ii) 3 people, at least 2 will have the same date of birth.
Assume the year to be ordinarry consisting of 365 days.
2
Q.15 The probability that a person will get an electric contract is and the probability that he will not get
5
4 2
plumbing contract is . If the probability of getting at least one contract is , what is the probability that
7 3
he will get both ?
Q.16 Five horses compete in a race. John picks two horses at random and bets on them. Find the probability
that John picked the winner. Assume dead heat.
Q.17 Two cubes have their faces painted either red or blue. The first cube has five red faces and one blue face.
When the two cubes are rolled simultaneously, the probability that the two top faces show the same
colour is 1/2. Number of red faces on the second cube, is
(A) 1 (B) 2 (C) 3 (D) 4

Q.18 There are 6 red balls and 6 green balls in a bag. Five balls are drawn out at random and placed in a red
box. The remaining seven balls are put in a green box. If the probability that the number of red balls in
p
the green box plus the number of green balls in the red box is not a prime number, is where p and q
q
are relatively prime, then find the value of (p + q)

Q.19 A bag contains 6R, 4W and 8B balls. If 3 balls are drawn simultaneously at random determine the
probability of the event
(a) all 3 are red ; (b) all 3 are black ; (c) 2 are white and 1 is red ;
(d) at least 1 is red ; (e) 1 of each colour are drawn
(f) the balls are drawn in the order of red, white, black.
Q.20 The odds that a book will be favourably reviewed by three independent critics are 5 to 2, 4 to 3, and 3
to 4 respectively. What is the probability that of the three reviews a majority will be favourable?
Q.21 When three cards are drawn from a standard 52-card deck, what is the probability they are all the same
rank? (e.g. all three are kings).
Q.22 A, B, C in order cut a pack of cards, replacing them after each cut, on condition that the first who cuts
a spade shall win a prize. Find their respective chances.
Q.23 A and B in order draw from a purse containing 3 rupees and 4 nP's, find their respective chances of first
drawing a rupee, the coins once drawn not being replaced.
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Daily Practice Problems
CLASS : XIII (XYZ) DPP ON PROBABILITY DPP. NO.- 4
After 4 th Lecture
Q.1 There are n different gift coupons, each of which can occupy N(N > n) different envelopes, with the
same probability 1/N
P1: The probability that there will be one gift coupon in each of n definite envelopes out of N given envelopes
P2: The probability that there will be one gift coupon in each of n arbitrary envelopes out of N given envelopes
Consider the following statements
n! N! n! N!
(i) P1 = P2 (ii) P1 = n (iii) P2 = n (iv) P2 = n (v) P1 = n
N N ( N  n )! N ( N  n )! N
Now, which of the following is true
(A) Only (i) (B) (ii) and (iii) (C) (ii) and (iv) (D) (iii) and (v)
Q.2 The probability that an automobile will be stolen and found withing one week is 0.0006. The probability that
an automobile will be stolen is 0.0015. The probability that a stolen automobile will be found in one week is
(A) 0.3 (B) 0.4 (C) 0.5 (D) 0.6
Q.3 One bag contains 3 white & 2 black balls, and another contains 2 white & 3 black balls. A ball is drawn
from the second bag & placed in the first, then a ball is drawn from the first bag & placed in the second.
When the pair of the operations is repeated, the probability that the first bag will contain 5 white balls is:
(A) 1/25 (B) 1/125 (C) 1/225 (D) 2/15
Q.4 A child throws 2 fair dice. If the numbers showing are unequal, he adds them together to get his final
score. On the other hand, if the numbers showing are equal, he throws 2 more dice & adds all 4 numbers
showing to get his final score. The probability that his final score is 6 is:
145 146 147 148
(A) (B) (C) (D)
1296 1296 1296 1296
Q.5 A person draws a card from a pack of 52 cards, replaces it & shuffles the pack. He continues doing this
till he draws a spade. The probability that he will fail exactly the first two times is :
(A) 1/64 (B) 9/64 (C) 36/64 (D) 60/64
Q.6 Indicate the correct order sequence in respect of the following :
I. If the probability that a computer will fail during the first hour of operation is 0.01, then if we turn
on 100 computers, exactly one will fail in the first hour of operation.
II. A man has ten keys only one of which fits the lock. He tries them in a door one by one discarding
the one he has tried. The probability that fifth key fits the lock is 1/10.
III. Given the events A and B in a sample space. If P(A) = 1, then A and B are independent.
IV. When a fair six sided die is tossed on a table top, the bottom face can not be seen. The probability
that the product of the numbers on the five faces that can be seen is divisible by 6 is one.
(A) FTFT (B) FTTT (C) TFTF (D) TFFF
Q.7 An unbaised cubic die marked with 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3 is rolled 3 times. The probability of getting a total
score of 4 or 6 is
(A) 16/216 (B) 50/216 (C) 60/216 (D) none
Q.8 A bag contains 3 R & 3 G balls and a person draws out 3 at random. He then drops 3 blue balls into the
bag & again draws out 3 at random. The chance that the 3 later balls being all of different colours is
(A) 15% (B) 20% (C) 27% (D) 40%
Q.9 A biased coin with probability P, 0 < P < 1, of heads is tossed until a head appears for the first time. If the
probability that the number of tosses required is even is 2/5 then the value of P is
(A) 1/4 (B) 1/6 (C) 1/3 (D) 1/2
Q.10 If a, b  N then the probability that a + b is divisible by 5 is
2 2

(A) 9/25 (B) 7/18 (C) 11/36 (D) 17/81

Q.11 In an examination, one hundred candidates took paper in Physics and Chemistry. Twenty five candidates
failed in Physics only. Twenty candidates failed in chemistry only. Fifteen failed in both Physics and
Chemistry. A candidate is selected at random. The probability that he failed either in Physics or in
Chemistry but not in both is
(A) 9/20 (B) 3/5 (C) 2/5 (D) 11/20
Q.12 When a missile is fired from a ship, the probability that it is intercepted is 1/3. The probability that the
missile hits the target, given that it is not intercepted is 3/4. If three missiles are fired independently from
the ship, the probability that all three hits their targets, is
(A) 1/12 (B) 1/8 (C) 3/8 (D) 3/4
Q.13 In each of a set of games it is 2 to 1 in favour of the winner of the previous game. What is the chance that
the player who wins the first game shall wins three at least of the next four?
Q.14 A coin is tossed n times, what is the chance that the head will present itself an odd number of times?
Q.15 A fair die is tossed repeatidly. A wins if it is 1 or 2 on two consecutive tosses and B wins if it is 3, 4, 5 or 6
on two consecutive tosses. The probability that A wins if the die is tossed indefinitely, is
(A) 1/3 (B) 5/21 (C) 1/4 (D) 2/5
Q.16 Counters marked 1, 2, 3 are placed in a bag, and one is withdrawn and replaced. The operation being
repeated three times, what is the chance of obtaining a total of 6?
Q.17 A normal coin is continued tossing unless a head is obtained for the first time. Find the probability that
(a) number of tosses needed are at most 3.
(b) number of tosses are even.
Q.18 A purse contains 2 six sided dice. One is a normal fair die, while the other has 2 ones, 2 threes, and 2
fives. A die is picked up and rolled. Because of some secret magnetic attraction of the unfair die, there is
75% chance of picking the unfair die and a 25% chance of picking a fair die. The die is rolled and shows
up the face 3. The probability that a fair die was picked up, is
(A) 1/7 (B) 1/4 (C) 1/6 (D) 1/24
Q.19 Before a race the chance of three runners, A, B, C were estimated to be proportional to 5, 3, 2, but
during the race A meets with an accident which reduces his chance to 1/3. What are the respective
chance of B and C now?
Q.20 A fair coin is tossed a large number of times. Assuming the tosses are independent which one of the
following statement, is True?
(A) Once the number of flips is large enough, the number of heads will always be exactly half of the total
number of tosses. For example, after 10,000 tosses one should have exactly 5,000 heads.
(B) The proportion of heads will be about 1/2 and this proportion will tend to get closer to 1/2 as the
number of tosses inreases
(C) As the number of tosses increases, any long run of heads will be balanced by a corresponding run of
tails so that the overall proportion of heads is exactly 1/2
(D) All of the above
Q.21 A and B each throw simultaneously a pair of dice. Find the probability that they obtain the same score.
Q.22 A is one of the 6 horses entered for a race, and is to be ridden by one of two jockeys B or C. It is 2 to
1 that B rides A, in which case all the horses are equally likely to win; if C rides A, his chance is trebled,
what are the odds against his winning?
Direction for Q.23 to Q.25
Let S and T are two events defined on a sample space with probabilities, P(S)=0.5, P(T)=0.69, P(S/T)=0.5
Q.23 Events S and T are:
(A) mutually exclusive (B) independent
(C) mutually exclusive and independent (D) neither mutually exclusive nor independent
Q.24 The value of P(S and T)
(A) 0.3450 (B) 0.2500 (C) 0.6900 (D) 0.350
Q.25 The value of P(S or T)
(A) 0.6900 (B) 1.19 (C) 0.8450 (D) 0
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Daily Practice Problems
CLASS : XIII (XYZ) DPP ON PROBABILITY DPP. NO.- 5
After 5 th Lecture
Q.1 Events A and C are independent. If the probabilities relating A, B and C are P (A) = 1/5; P (B) = 1/6;
P(A  C) = 1/20; P(B  C) = 3/8 then
(A) events B and C are independent (B) events B and C are mutually exclusive
(C) events B and C are neither independent nor mutually exclusive
(D) events B and C are equiprobable
Q.2 Assume that the birth of a boy or girl to a couple to be equally likely, mutually exclusive, exhaustive and
independent of the other children in the family. For a couple having 6 children, the probability that their
"three oldest are boys" is
(A) 20/64 (B) 1/64 (C) 2/64 (D) 8/64
Q.3 A and B play a game. A is to throw a die first, and is to win if he throws 6, If he fails B is to throw, and
to win if he throws 6 or 5. If he fails, A is to throw again and to win with 6 or 5 or 4, and so on, find the
chance of each player.
Q.4 Box A contains 3 red and 2 blue marbles while box B contains 2 red and 8 blue marbles. A fair coin is
tossed. If the coin turns up heads, a marble is drawn from A, if it turns up tails, a marble is drawn from
bag B. The probability that a red marble is chosen, is
(A) 1/5 (B) 2/5 (C) 3/5 (D) 1/2
Q.5 A examination consists of 8 questions in each of which one of the 5 alternatives is the correct one. On the
assumption that a candidate who has done no preparatory work chooses for each question any one of the
five alternatives with equal probability, the probability that he gets more than one correct answer is equal to
(A) (0.8)8 (B) 3 (0.8)8 (C) 1  (0.8)8 (D) 1  3 (0.8)8
Q.6 The germination of seeds is estimated by a probability of 0.6. The probability that out of 11 sown seeds
exactly 5 or 6 will spring is:
11 11
11
C5 . 65 C 6 (35 25 ) 5
(A) (B) (C) C5  
11 (D) none of these
510 511 6
Q.7 The probability of obtaining more tails than heads in 6 tosses of a fair coins is :
(A) 2/64 (B) 22/64 (C) 21/64 (D) none
Q.8 An instrument consists of two units. Each unit must function for the instrument to operate. The reliability
of the first unit is 0.9 & that of the second unit is 0.8. The instrument is tested & fails. The probability that
"only the first unit failed & the second unit is sound" is :
(A) 1/7 (B) 2/7 (C) 3/7 (D) 4/7
Q.9 Lot A consists of 3G and 2D articles. Lot B consists of 4G and 1D article. A new lot C is formed by taking
3 articles from A and 2 from B. The probability that an article chosen at random from C is defective, is
(A) 1/3 (B) 2/5 (C) 8/25 (D) none
Q.10 'A' and 'B' each have a bag that contains one ball of each of the colours blue, green, orange, red and
violet. 'A' randomly selects one ball from his bag and puts it into B's bag. 'B' then randomly selects one
ball from his bag and puts it into A's bag. The probability that after this process the containts of the two
bags are the same, is
(A) 1/6 (B) 1/5 (C) 1/3 (D) 1/2
Q.11 If mn coins have been distributed into m purses, n into each find
(1) the chance that two specified coins will be found in the same purse, and
(2) what the chance becomes when r purses have been examined and found not to contain either of
the specified coins.
Q.12 A box has four dice in it. Three of them are fair dice but the fourth one has the number five on all of its
faces. A die is chosen at random from the box and is rolled three times and shows up the face five on all
the three occassions. The chance that the die chosen was a rigged die, is
216 215 216
(A) (B) (C) (D) none
217 219 219
Q.13 On a Saturday night 20% of all drivers in U.S.A. are under the influence of alcohol. The probability that
a driver under the influence of alcohol will have an accident is 0.001. The probability that a sober driver
will have an accident is 0.0001. If a car on a saturday night smashed into a tree, the probability that the
driver was under the influence of alcohol, is
(A) 3/7 (B) 4/7 (C) 5/7 (D) 6/7
Q.14 The contents of three Urns w.r.t. the Red, White and Green balls is as shown in the table given.
Urn R W G
I 2 3 1
II 3 2 1
III 3 1 2
A coin when tossed is twice as likely to come heads as compared to tails. Such a coin is tossed two
times. If both heads and tails are present then 3 balls are drawn simultaneously from the Urn-I, if head
appears on both the occassions then 3 balls are drawn in a similar manner from Urn-II and if no head
appears in both the tosses then 3 balls from the Urn-III are drawn in the same manner.
The probability that 3 drawn balls are 1 each of different colours, is
(A) 10% (B) 15% (C) 30% (D) 90%
Direction for Q.15 to Q.17 (3 Questions)
A JEE aspirant estimates that she will be successful with an 80 percent chance if she studies 10 hours per
day, with a 60 percent chance if she studies 7 hours per day and with a 40 percent chance if she studies
4 hours per day. She further believes that she will study 10 hours, 7 hours and 4 hours per day with
probabilities 0.1, 0.2 and 0.7, respectively
Q.15 The chance she will be successful, is
(A) 0.28 (B) 0.38 (C) 0.48 (D) 0.58
Q.16 Given that she is successful, the chance she studied for 4 hours, is
(A) 6/12 (B) 7/12 (C) 8/12 (D) 9/12
Q.17 Given that she does not achieve success, the chance she studied for 4 hour, is
(A) 18/26 (B) 19/26 (C) 20/26 (D) 21/26
Q.18 A letter is known to have come either from London or Clifton. On the postmark only the two consecutive
letters ON are legible. What is the chance that it came from London?
Q.19 A purse contains n coins of unknown value, a coin drawn at random is found to be a rupee, what is the
chance that is it the only rupee in the purse? Assume all numbers of rupee coins in the purse is equally likely.
Q.20 One of a pack of 52 cards has been lost, from the remainder of the pack two cards are drawn and are
found to be spades, find the chance that the missing card is a spade.
Q.21 A, B are two inaccurate arithmeticians whose chance of solving a given question correctly are (1/8) and
(1/12) respectively. They solve a problem and obtained the same result. If it is 1000 to 1 against their
making the same mistake, find the chance that the result is correct.
Q.22 We conduct an experiment where we roll a die 5 times. The order in which the number read out is important.
(a) What is the total number of possible outcomes of this experiment?
(b) What is the probability that exactly 3 times a "2" appears in the sequence (say event E)?
(c) What is the probability that the face 2 appears at least twice (say event F)?
(d) Which of the following are true : E  F, F  E?
(e) Compute the probabilities : P(E  F), P(E/F), P(F/E)
(f) Are the events E and F independent?
 MATHEMATICS
Daily Practice Problems
CLASS : XIII (XYZ) DPP ON PROBABILITY DPP. NO.- 6
After 6th Lecture
Q.1 A bowl has 6 red marbles and 3 green marbles. The probability that a blind folded person will draw a red
marble on the second draw from the bowl without replacing the marble from the first draw, is
(A) 2/3 (B) 1/4 (C) 5/12 (D) 5/8
Q.2 5 out of 6 persons who usually work in an office prefer coffee in the mid morning, the other always drink
tea. This morning of the usual 6, only 3 are present. The probability that one of them drinks tea is :
(A) 1/2 (B) 1/12 (C) 25/72 (D) 5/72
Q.3 Pal’s gardner is not dependable , the probability that he will forget to water the rose bush is 2/3. The
rose bush is in questionable condition . Any how if watered, the probability of its withering is 1/2 & if
not watered then the probability of its withering is 3/4. Pal went out of station & after returning he finds
that rose bush has withered. What is the probability that the gardner did not water the rose bush.
Q.4 The probability that a radar will detect an object in one cycle is p. The probability that the object will be
detected in n cycles is :
(A) 1  pn (B) 1  (1  p)n (C) pn (D) p(1 – p)n–1
Q.5 Nine cards are labelled 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Two cards are drawn at random and put on a table in a
successive order, and then the resulting number is read, say, 07 (seven), 14 (fourteen) and so on. The
probability that the number is even, is
(A) 5/9 (B) 4/9 (C) 1/2 (D) 2/3
Q.6 Two cards are drawn from a well shuffled pack of 52 playing cards one by one. If
A : the event that the second card drawn is an ace and
B : the event that the first card drawn is an ace card.
then which of the following is true?
(A) P (A) = 4/17 ; P (B) = 1/13 (B) P (A) = 1/13 ; P (B) = 1/13
(C) P (A) = 1/13 ; P (B) = 1/17 (D) P (A) = 16/221 ; P (B) = 4/51
(1  3p) (1  p) (1  2p)
Q.7 If , & are the probabilities of three pairwise mutually exclusive events defined
3 4 2
on a sample space S, then the true set of all values of p is
1 1  1  1 1 1 1
(A)  ,  (B)  ,1 (C)  ,  (D)  , 
3 2  3   4 3 4 2
Q.8 A lot contains 50 defective & 50 non defective bulbs . Two bulbs are drawn at random, one at a time,
with replacement . The events A, B, C are defined as :
A = { the first bulb is defective}; B = { the second bulb is non defective}
C = { the two bulbs are both defective or both non defective}
Determine whether (i) A,B,C are pair wise independent (ii) A,B,C are independent
Q.9 An Urn contains 'm' white and 'n' black balls. All the balls except for one ball, are drawn from it. The
probability that the last ball remaining in the Urn is white, is
m n 1 mn
(A) (B) (C) ( m  n ) ! (D) ( m  n ) !
mn mn
Q.10 A Urn contains 'm' white and 'n' black balls. Balls are drawn one by one till all the balls are drawn.
Probability that the second drawn ball is white, is
m n ( m  n  1) m (m  1) mn
(A) (B) (C) (D)
mn ( m  n )( m  n  1) ( m  n )( m  n  1) (m  n)(m  n  1)
Q.11 Mr. Dupont is a professional wine taster. When given a French wine, he will identify it with probability
0.9 correctly as French, and will mistake it for a Californian wine with probability 0.1. When given a
Californian wine, he will identify it with probability 0.8 correctly as Californian, and will mistake it for a
French wine with probability 0.2. Suppose that Mr. Dupont is given ten unlabelled glasses of wine, three
with French and seven with Californian wines. He randomly picks a glass, tries the wine, and solemnly
says : "French". The probability that the wine he tasted was Californian, is nearly equal to
(A) 0.14 (B) 0.24 (C) 0.34 (D) 0.44
Q.12 Let A, B & C be 3 arbitrary events defined on a sample space 'S' and if,
P(A) + P(B) + P(C) = p1 , P(A  B) + P(B  C) + P(C  A) = p2 & P(A  B  C) = p3, then the
probability that exactly one of the three events occurs is given by :
(A) p1  p2 + p3 (B) p1  p2 + 2p3 (C) p1  2p2 + p3 (D) p1  2p2 + 3p3
Q.13 Three numbers are chosen at random without replacement from {1, 2, 3,...... , 10}. The probability that
the minimum of the chosen numbers is 3 or their maximum is 7 is
(A) 1/2 (B) 1/3 (C) 1/4 (D) 11/40
Q.14 A biased coin which comes up heads three times as often as tails is tossed. If it shows heads, a chip is
drawn from urn–I which contains 2 white chips and 5 red chips. If the coin comes up tails, a chip is
drawn from urn–II which contains 7 white and 4 red chips. Given that a red chip was drawn, what is the
probability that the coin came up heads?
Q.15 In a college, four percent of the men and one percent of the women are taller than 6 feet. Further
60 percent of the students are women. If a randomly selected person is taller than 6 feet, find the
probability that the student is a women.
Q.16 If at least one child in a family with 3 children is a boy then the probability that 2 of the children are boys, is
(A) 3/7 (B) 1/4 (C) 1/3 (D) 3/8
Q.17 The probabilities of events, A  B, A, B & A  B are respectively in A.P. with probability of second
term equal to the common difference. Therefore the events A and B are
(A) compatible (B) independent
(C) such that one of them must occur (D) such that one is twice as likely as the other
Q.18 From an urn containing six balls, 3 white and 3 black ones, a person selects at random an even number of balls
(all the different ways of drawing an even number of balls are considered equally probable, irrespective of their
number). Then the probability that there will be the same number of black and white balls among them
(A) 4/5 (B) 11/15 (C) 11/30 (D) 2/5
Q.19 One purse contains 6 copper coins and 1 silver coin; a second purse contains 4 copper coins. Five coins
are drawn from the first purse and put into the second, and then 2 coins are drawn from the second and
put into the first. The probability that the silver coin is in the second purse is
(A) 1/2 (B) 4/9 (C) 5/9 (D) 2/3
Q.20 7 persons are stopped on the road at random and asked about their birthdays. If the probability that 3 of
K
them are born on Wednesday, 2 on Thursday and the remaining 2 on Sunday is 6 , then K is equal to
7
(A) 15 (B) 30 (C) 105 (D) 210
Q.21 Two buses A and B are scheduled to arrive at a town central bus station at noon. The probability that bus
A will be late is 1/5. The probability that bus B will be late is 7/25. The probability that the bus B is late
given that bus A is late is 9/10. Then the probabilities
(i) neither bus will be late on a particular day and
(ii) bus A is late given that bus B is late, are respectively
(A) 2/25 and 12/28 (B) 18/25 and 22/28 (C) 7/10 and 18/28 (D) 12/25 and 2/28
 MATHEMATICS
Daily Practice Problems
CLASS : XIII (XYZ) DPP ON PROBABILITY DPP. NO.- 7
Q.1 A box contains a normal coin and a doubly headed coin. A coin selected at random and tossed twice, fell
headwise on both the occasions. The probability that the drawn coin is a doubly headed coin is
2 5 3 4
(A) (B) (C) (D)
3 8 4 5

Q.2 A box contains 5 red and 4 white marbles. Two marbles are drawn successively from the box without
replacement and the second drawn marble drawn is found to be white. Probability that the first marble is
also while is
3 1 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D)
8 2 3 4

Q.3 A and B in order draw a marble from bag containing 5 white and 1 red marbles with the condition that
whosoever draws the red marble first, wins the game. Marble once drawn by them are not replaced into
the bag. Then their respective chances of winning are
2 1 3 2 2 3 1 1
(A) & (B) & (C) & (D) &
3 3 5 5 5 5 2 2

Q.4 In a maths paper there are 3 sections A, B & C. Section A is compulsory. Out of sections B & C a
student has to attempt any one. Passing in the paper means passing in A & passing in B or C. The
probability of the student passing in A, B & C are p, q & 1/2 respectively. If the probability that the
student is successful is 1/2 then :
1 1
(A) p = q = 1 (B) p = q = (C) p = 1, q = 0 (D) p = 1, q =
2 2

Q.5 A box contains 100 tickets numbered 1, 2, 3,.... ,100. Two tickets are chosen at random. It is given that
the maximum number on the two chosen tickets is not more than 10. The minimum number on them is 5,
with probability
1 2 3
(A) (B) (C) (D) none
9 11 19

Q.6 Sixteen players s1 , s2 ,..... , s16 play in a tournament. They are divided into eight pairs at random. From
each pair a winner is decided on the basis of a game played between the two players of the pair. Assume
that all the players are of equal strength. The probability that "exactly one of the two players s1 & s2 is
among the eight winners" is
4 7 8 9
(A) (B) (C) (D)
15 15 15 15

Q.7 The number 'a' is randomly selected from the set {0, 1, 2, 3, ...... 98, 99}. The number 'b' is selected
from the same set. Probability that the number 3a + 7b has a digit equal to 8 at the units place, is
1 2 4 3
(A) (B) (C) (D)
16 16 16 16
Q.8 A circle of radius 3 is placed at the centre of a circle of radius r > 3 such that the length of a chord of the
larger circle tangent to the smaller circle is 8. The probability that point randomly selected from inside of
the larger circle lies inside the annular region of the two circles is
3 9 16 7
(A) (B) (C) (D)
4 25 25 3
Q.9 We are given two urns as follows :
Urn A contains 5 red marbles, 3 white marbles and 8 blue marbles.
Urn B contains 3 red marbles and 5 white marbles
A fair dice is tossed if 3 or 6 appears, a marble is chosen from B, otherwise a marble is chosen from A. Find
the probability that (i) a red marble is chosen, (ii) a white marble is chosen, (iii) a blue marble is chosen.
(Use Tree Diagram)
Q.10 Two boys A and B find the jumble of n ropes lying on the floor. Each takes hold of one loose end
1
randomly. If the probability that they are both holding the same rope is then the number of ropes is
101
equal to
(A) 101 (B) 100 (C) 51 (D) 50

Direction for Q.11 to Q.14 (4 Questions)

Read the passage given below carefully before attempting these questions.
A standard deck of playing cards has 52 cards. There are four suit (clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades),
each of which has thirteen numbered cards (2, ....., 9, 10, Jack, Queen, King, Ace)
In a game of card, each card is worth an amount of points. Each numbered card is worth its number
(e.g. a 5 is worth 5 points) ; the Jack, Queen and King are each worth 10 points ; and the Ace is worth your
choice of "either 1 point or 11 points". The object of the game is to have more points in your set of cards
than your opponent without going over 21. Any set of cards with sum greater than 21 automatically loses.
Here's how the game is played. You and your opponent are each dealt two cards. Usually the first card
for each player is dealt face down, and the second card for each player is dealt face up. After the initial
cards are dealt, the first player has the option of asking for another card or not taking any cards. The first
player can keep asking for more cards until either he or she goes over 21, in which case the player loses,
or stops at some number less than or equal to 21. When the first player stops at some number less than
or equal to 21, the second player then can take more cards until matching or exceeding the first player's
number without going over 21, in which case the second player wins, or until going over 21, in which
case the first player wins.
We are going to simplify the game a little and assume that all cards are dealt face up, so that all cards are
visible. Assume your opponent is dealt cards and plays first.
Q.11 The chance that the second card will be a heart and a Jack, is
4 13 17 1
(A) (B) (C) (D)
52 52 52 52
Q.12 The chance that the first card will be a heart or a Jack, is
13 16 17
(A) (B) (C) (D) none
52 52 52
Q.13 Given that the first card is a Jack, the chance that it will be the heart, is
1 4 1 1
(A) (B) (C) (D)
13 13 4 3
Q.14 Suppose your opponent is dealt a King and a 10, and you are dealt a Queen and a 9. Being smart, your
opponent does not take any more cards and stays at 20. The chance that you will win if you are allowed
to take as many cards as you need, is
97 25 15 1
(A) (B) (C) (D)
564 282 188 6

More than one alternative are correct:

Q.15 If A & B are two events such that P(B)  1, BC denotes the event complementry to B, then


(A) P A BC =  P (A )  P (A  B)
1  P (B)
(B) P (A  B)  P(A) + P(B)  1

(C) P(A) > < P A B according as P A BC > < P(A)
  
(D) P A BC + P A C BC = 1 
Q.16 Two real numbers, x & y are selected at random. Given that 0  x  1 ; 0  y  1. Let A be the event
that y2  x ; B be the event that x2  y, then :
1
(A) P (A  B) = (B) A & B are exhaustive events
3
(C) A & B are mutually exclusive (D) A & B are independent events.

Q.17 For any two events A & B defined on a sample space,

P (A)  P (B)  1
(A) P A B  , P (B)  0 is always true
P (B)
(B) P AB  = P (A) - P (A  B)
(C) P (A  B) = 1 - P (Ac). P (Bc), if A & B are independent
(D) P (A  B) = 1 - P (Ac). P (Bc), if A & B are disjoint

Q.18 If E1 and E2 are two events such that P(E1) = 1/4, P(E2/E1) =1/2 and P(E1/ E2) = 1/4
(A) then E1 and E2 are independent
(B) E1 and E2 are exhaustive
(C) E2 is twice as likely to occur as E1
(D) Probabilities of the events E1  E2, E1 and E2 are in G.P.

Q.19 Let 0 < P(A) < 1 , 0 < P(B) < 1 & P(A  B) = P(A) + P(B)  P(A). P(B), then :
(A) P(B/A) = P(B)  P(A) (B) P(AC  BC) = P(AC) + P(BC)
(C) P((A  B)C) = P(AC). P(BC) (D) P(A/B) = P(A)

Q.20 If M & N are independent events such that 0 < P(M) < 1 & 0 < P(N) < 1, then :
(A) M & N are mutually exclusive (B) M & N are independent
(C) M & N are independent (D) P M N + P  M N = 1
 ANSWER KEY

DPP-1
1 3
Q.1 A Q.2 B Q.3 A Q.4 C Q.5 A Q.6 Q.7
56 8
2197 2 4 n (n  1)
Q.9 Q.10 952 to 715 Q.12 Q.13 Q.14
20825 7 21 (m  n )(m  n  1)
2 1 1 1 3 1
Q.15 Q.16 Q.17 , Q.18 ,
3 2 5 10 4 4
4
C 4 · 48C 9
Q.19 52 Q.20 A
C13

DPP-2
7 1 2 2 1 9
Q.1 (i) 0.18, (ii) 0.12, (iii) 0.42, (iv) 0.28, (v) 0.72 Q.2 (i) , (ii) , (iii) , (iv) , (v) , (vi)
13 2 13 13 2 13

2 5 3
Q.3 Q.4 (a) 1/18, (b) 43/90, (c) 5/18, (d) NO Q.5 (i) , (ii) Q.6 C
3 8 8

Q.7 D Q.8 C Q.9 D Q.10 A Q.11 A Q.12 A Q.13 B

1 5 53
Q.14 C Q.15 (i) 0.6, (ii) 0.5, (iii) 0.25 Q.16 (i) , (ii) , (iii)
36 108 54

1 1 1 2 30 1
Q.17 P(E) = , P(F)= , P(E and F) = ; Yes Q.18 P(E)= , P(F)= , P(E  F) = ; Not independent
3 2 6 36 36 36

11 3 2 12
Q.19 Q.20 Q.21 Q.22 Q.23 A Q.24 A
20 5 7 25

DPP-3
Q.1 A Q.2 C Q.3 B Q.4 C Q.5 D Q.6 D Q.7 D

5 1 1 7
Q.8 B Q.9 Q.10 (i) 0.49 ; (ii) 0.973 Q.11 Q.12 Q.13
8 4 3 8

1 364  363 17 4
Q.14 (i) , (ii) 1 – Q.15 Q.16 Q.17 C
365 (365) 2 105 10

5 7 3 149 4 2 209
Q.18 37 Q.19 (a) , (b) , (c) , (d) , (e) , Q.20
204 102 68 204 17 51 343

52 16 12 9 22 13
Q.21 Q.22 , , Q.23 ,
22100 37 37 37 35 35
 DPP-4
Q.1 B Q.2 B Q.3 C Q.4 D Q.5 B Q.6 B Q.7 B
4 1
Q.8 C Q.9 C Q.10 A Q.11 A Q.12 B Q.13 Q.14
9 2
7 7 1 2 4
Q.15 B Q.16 Q.17 (a) , (b) Q.18 A Q.19 B= ;C=
27 8 3 5 15
73
Q.20 B Q.21 Q.22 13 to 5 Q.23 B Q.24 A Q.25 C
648
DPP-5
169 155
Q.1 A Q.2 D Q.3 A: ;B: Q.4 B Q.5 D Q.6 A
324 324
n 1 n 1
Q.7 B Q.8 B Q.9 C Q.10 C Q.11 (1) , (2)
mn  1 mn  rn  1
Q.12 C Q.13 C Q.14 C Q.15 C Q.16 B Q.17 D
12 2 11 13
Q.18 Q.19 Q.20 Q.21
17 n (n  1) 50 14
5
10 ·52 5
Q.22 (a) 6 5; (b) (c) 1–2·   (d) EF
65 6
P(E )
(e) P(E  F) =P(E) ; P(E/F) = ; P(F/E) = 1 (f) No
P (F)

DPP-6
3
Q.1 A Q.2 A Q.3 Q.4 B Q.5 A Q.6 B Q.7 A
4

Q.8 (i) A,B,C are pairwise independent (ii) A,B,C are not independent. Q.9 A Q.10 A

165 3
Q.11 C Q.12 D Q.13 D Q.14 Q.15 Q.16 A Q.17 D
193 11

Q.18 B Q.19 C Q.20 B Q.21 C

DPP-7
Q.1 D Q.2 A Q.3 D Q.4 D Q.5 A Q.6 C Q.7 D

1 1 1
Q.8 C Q.9 (i) ; (ii) ; (iii) Q.10 C Q.11 D Q.12 B Q.13 C
3 3 3

Q.14 D Q.15 A, B, C, D Q.16 A, B Q.17 A, B, C

Q.18 A, C, D Q.19 C, D Q.20 B, C, D