ASSIGNMENT SHEET
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PROBABILITY
1. 20 cards numbered 1, 2, 3,......20 are put in a box and mixed
thoroughly. Then, a card is drawn from the box. Find the
probility that the number on the card is :
(i) a prime (ii) divisible by 3.
2. A card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 playing cards. Find
the probability that the card drawn is neither
an ace nor a queen.
3. Two unbiased coins are tossed once. What is the
probability of getting exactly one tail ?
4. A pair of dice is tossed once. Find the probability
of getting a sum of 7 on the two dice.
5. A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow which comes
to rest pointing at one of the numbers
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and these are equally likely
outcomes. What is the probability that it will point at
(i) a prime number ? (ii) a factor of 8 ?
6. A card is drawn from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find
the probability that it is :
(i) an ace (ii) a king of spades.
7. Two coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the
probability of gatting at least one head.
8. A die is tossed once. Find the probability of getting
an even number or a multiple of 3.
9. Three coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the
probability of getting exactly two heads.
10. A letter is chosen at random from the English alphabets. Find
the probability that it is :
(i) a vowel (ii) a consonant
11. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability :
(a) sum is less than 5 (ii) a doublet appear
12. If there are 2 children in a family, find the probability that
there is at least one boy in the family.
13. A bag contains lemon flavoured candy only. Malini takes
out one candy without looking into the bag. What is the
probability that the she takes out :
14.. A pair of dice is thrown once.
will come up at least on one die ?
15. An integer is chosen between 0 and 100. Find the probability
that the number is divisible by 3 and 5 both.
16. A pair of dice is thrown once. Find the probability of getting a
number greater than 4 on each die.
17. A bag contains 24 marbles, some of which are green and oth-
ers are blue. A marble is drawn at random form the bag. If the
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probability that it is green is , then find the number of the
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blue marbles be x.
18. A game consists of tossing a one rupee coin 3 times and noting
its out come each time, Ram wins if he gets either all heads or
all tails, and loses otherwise. Find the probability that he will
lose the game.
19. A Jar contains blue and green marbles. The number of green
marbles is 5 more than twice the number of blue marbles If
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probability of drawing a blue one at random is , hwo many
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blue and green marbles are there in the jar ?
20. A bag contains 5 red balls and some blue balls. If the probabil-
ity of drawing a blue ball is double that a red ball, determine
the number of blue balls in the bag.
21. A bag contains 5 red balls and some blue balls. If the probabil-
ity of drawing a blue ball from the bag is thrice that of red ball,
find the number of blue balls in the bag.
22. What is the probability that there are 53 Wednesdays in a
leap year ?
32. Find the probability that a non-leap year chosen at ran-
dom has (i) 52 Sundays, (ii) 53 Sundays.
23. Anita, Sita, Gita and Rita are four friends. What is the
probability that (in a nonleap year)
(i) All will have same birthday.
(ii) Their birthdays fall in the month of October.
(iii) Their birthdays fall on 10th day of the months.
(iv) Their birthdays fall in January of February.
24. Three unbiased coins are tossed together. What is the prob-
ability of getting
(a) two heads, (b) at least two heads,
(c) at most two heads.
25. Two dice, one blue and one grey are thrown at the same time. 32. (i) A lot of 20 bulbs contain 5 defective bulbs. One bulb

Write down all the possible outcomes. What is the probability is drawn at random from the lot. What is the probability

that : that it is defective ?

(i) sum of the two numbers appearing on the dice is 9. (ii) Suppose the bulb drawn in (i) is not defective and is

(ii) numbers appearing on top of dice are same. not replaced. Now one bulb is drawn random from the

(iii) sum of two numbers appearing on the dice is less than 12. rest. What is the probability that this bulb is not defec-

26. From the numbers 1, 2, 3 one number x is selected and from tive ?

the numbers 1, 4, 9 second number y is selected. Find the prob- (iii) Suppose the bulb drawn in (i) is defective and is not

ability that the : replaced. Now one bulb is drawn at random from the

(i) Product of two numbers is less than 9. rest. What is the probability that this bulb is :

(ii) product of two numbers is more than 13. (a) defective (b) not defective ?

(iii) sum of two numbers is 12. 33. One card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards.

27. King, queen and jack of hearts are removed from a pack of 52 Find the probability of getting :

playing cards and the probability of getting a card of : (i) a face card. (ii) a king

(i) hearts (ii) a queen of red colour.

(iii) not a king (iii) a spade. (iv) a 10 of

28. A bag contains 18 balls out of which x balls are red. black colour.

(i) If one ball is drawn at random from the bag, what is prob- 34. In the beginning of the session, there where 40 students

ability that it is a red ball ? in class X, out of which 19 were girls and 21 were boys.

(ii) If 2 more red balls are put in the bag, the probability of 7 studnets got promoted after compartment examination
9 out of which 4 were girls and 3 boys. Who has the more
drawing a red ball will be times that of probability of red
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ball coming in part (i). Find x. probability of getting selected as the class monitor ? What

29. A group consists of 12 persons, of which 3 are extremely pa- is the difference between their probabilities ?

tient, other 6 are extremely honest and rest are extremely kind. 35. What is the probability that a number selected at random

A person from the group is selected at random. Assuming that from the number 1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4 will be their average ?

each person is equally likely to be selected., find the probabil- 36. A child has a block in the shape of a cube with one letter or

ity of selectiong a person who is (i) extremely patient (ii) ex- digit written on each face as shown below :

tremely kind or honest. Which of the above values you

prefer more ?

30. A box contains discs which are numbered from 5 to 94. If one The cube is thrown once. Find the probability of getting :

disc is drawn at random from the box, find the probability that (a) a multiple of 4. (b) D

it bears : 37. What is the probability of a certain event ?

(i) a two digit number 38. Can-1.5 be the probability of an event ?

(ii) a perfect square number

(iii) a number divisible by 7

(iv) a number which is divisible by 10.

31. It is given that in a group of 3 students, the probability of 2

students not having the same birthday is 0.992. What is the