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CLASS: X CBSE & NTSE (2021-22) NAME: ……….………………….

SUBJECT: MATHEMATICS
CHAPTER: PROBABILITY

Q1. The probability of getting a doublet of even number in a throw of a pair of dice.
A. 1/6 B. 1/12 C. 5/6 D. 5/12
Q2. The probability of getting a black queen from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards.
A. 5/26 B. 3/26 C. 1/26 D. 0

Q3. The probability for the month of august to have 5 Sundays?

A. 1/7 B. 2/7 C. 3/7 D. 4/7

Q4. If a die is rolled once. What is the probability of getting a perfect square?
A. 0 B. 1/2 C. 2/3 D. 1/3
Q5. A bag contains 5 red balls and n green balls, if the probability of drawing a green ball is three times
that of a red ball, then the value of n is
A. 10 B. 15 C. 20 D. 25

Q6. What is the probability for a leap year to have 53 Saturdays and 53 Sundays?
A. 1/7 B. 2/7 C. 3/7 D. 4/7

Q7. Three coins are tossed, then find the probability of getting atmost 2 heads.
A. 1/8 B. 3/8 C. 5/8 D. 7/8

Q8. A die is rolled once. Find the probability of getting a factor of 36.
A. 5/6 B. 1/3 C. 1/5 D. 2/3

Q9. If a letter is chosen at random from the English alphabet, find the probability that the letter is a
consonant.
A. 15/26 B. 17/26 C. 19/26 D. 21/26

Q10. If an integer is chosen at random from 0 to 100, then find the probability that it is not divisible by 7.
A. 45/99 B. 85/101 C. 85/99 D. 49/101
Q11. The probability of getting a rotten egg in a lot of 400 is 0.035. Find the number of rotten eggs in the
lot.
A. 14 B. 15 C. 16 D. 17

Q12. A bag contains 20 balls of which x balls are red. If one ball is drawn at random from the bag and
noted the probability of red ball. If 4 more red balls are put in the bag, the probability of drawing a red
ball will be 5/4 times the probability of drawing a red ball in the first case. Find the value of x.
A. 8 B. 9 C. 10 D. 11
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Q13. In a bag there are 20 marbles out of which some are blue and some are red. If 4 blue marbles are
removed from the bag, the probability of drawing a blue marble then becomes one fourth of its original
probability. the number of blue marbles in the bag is
A. 4 B. 5 C. 6 D. 7

Q14. If a month is selected at random from the year. What is the probability that it would contain 31 days?
A. 4/12 B. 5/12 C. 6/12 D. 7/12

Q15. A bag contains white, black and red balls only. A ball is drawn at random from the bag. If the
probability of getting a white ball is 3/10 and that of a black ball is 2/5, Find the total number of balls if
number of red balls is 15.
A. 50 B. 60 C. 70 D. 80
(Case study
From a well shuffled deck of playing cards if a card is drawn at random.
Based on the above situation, answer the following questions:
Q16. What is the probability for the card to be a face card?
(a) 10/52 (b) 12/52 (c) 16/52 (d) 8/52
Q17. What is the probability that the card drawn is a jack or an ace?
(a) 6/52 (b) 8/52 (c) 10/52 (d) 14/52
Q18. Which of the following cannot be the probability of an event?
(a) 0 (b) 19% (c) -5/7 (d) 1
Q19. If all cards of diamonds are removed from the deck, find that a card drawn at random from the deck
is a red jack.
(a) 2/52 (b) 1/52 (c) 1/39 (d) 2/39
Q20. The probability that India will lift the cricket series this year is 0.76, then the probability that
(a) 1.24 (b) 0.2 (c) 0.56 (d) 0.24