CHAPTER-15

PROBABILITY
05 MARK TYPE QUESTIONS
Q. NO QUESTION MARK
1. 5
Figure depicts an archery target marked with its five scoring regions from the centre outwards as
Gold, Red, Blue, Black and White. The diameter of the region representing Gold score is 20 cm
and each of the other bands is 10 cm wide. If a woman shoots an arrow. Find the following
probabilities.

(i) The probability that the arrow hits in Gold scoring area, is

(a) 1/25 (b) 3/25 (c) 1/5 (d) 7/25

(ii) The probability that it hits in Red scoring area, is

(a) 1/25 (b) 3/25 (c) 1/5 (d) 7/25

(iii) The probability that it hits in Blue scoring area, is

(a) 9/25 (b) 3/25 (c) 1/5 (d) 7/25

(iv) The probability that it hits in Black scoring area, is

(a) 7/25 (b) 3/25 (c) 1/5 (d) 9/25

(v) The probability that it hits in White scoring area, is

(a) 1/25 (b) 3/25 (c) 9/25 (d) 7/25

2. 5
Eight Ball : This is a game played on a pool table with 15
balls numbered 1 through 15 and a cue ball that is solid
white. Of the 15 numbered balls, 8 are a solid (nonwhite)
color and numbered 1 through 8, and seven are striped balls
numbered 9 through 15.The fifteen numbered pool balls (no cueball) are placed in a large
bowl and mixed, then one is drawn out.
 (i) What is the probability that the drawn ball bears number 8?
(ii) What is the probability of drawing a number greater than fifteen ?
(iii) What is the probability of drawing an even number ?
(iv) What is the probability of drawing a multiple of three ?
(v) What is the probability of drawing a solid color and an even
number ?
3. Rahul and Ravi planned to play Business ( board game) in
which they were supposed to use two dice.
1. Ravi got first chance to roll the dice. What is the
probability that he got the sum of the two numbers
appearing on the top face of the dice is 8?
a) 1/26 b) 5/36 c) 1/18 d) 0
2. Rahul got next chance. What is the probability that he
got the sum of the two numbers appearing on the top face of the dice is 13?

a) 1. b) 5/36. c) 1/18. d) 0
3. Now it was Ravi’s turn. He rolled the dice. What is the probability that he got the sum of
the two numbers appearing on the top face of the dice is less than or equal to 12?
a) 1. b) 5/36. c) 1/18. d) 0
4. Rahul got next chance. What is the probability that he got the sum of the two numbers
appearing on the top face of the dice is equal to 7?
a) 5/9. b) 5/36. c) 1/6. d) 0
5. Now it was Ravi’s turn. He rolled the dice. What is the probability that he got the sum of
the two numbers appearing on the top face of the dice is greater than 8?
a) 1. b) 5/36. c) 1/18. d) 5/18

4. On a weekend Rani was playing cards with her family. The deck
has 52 cards. If her brother drew one card.
1. Find the probability of getting a king of red colour.
a) 1/26. b) 1/13. c) 1/5. d) 1/4
2. Find the probability of getting a face card.
a) 1/26. b) 1/13. c) 2/13. d) 3/13
3. Find the probability of getting a jack of hearts.
a) 1/26. b) 1/52. c) 3/52. d) 3/26
4. Find the probability of getting a jack of hearts.
a) 3/13. b) 1/13. c) 1/52. d) 1/4
5. Find the probability of getting a jack of hearts.
a) 1/26. b) 1/13. c) 1/52. d) 1/4
5. In a sample of 50 people, 21 had type O blood, 22 had type A blood, 5 had type 5
 B blood, and 2 had type AB blood. Set up a frequency distribution and find the
following probabilities.

(i) What is the probability that a person has type O blood?

(ii) What is the probability that a person has type A or type B blood?
(iii) What is the probability that a person has neither type A nor type O
blood?
(iv) What is the probability that a person does not have type AB blood?
(v) What is the probability of impossible and sure events respectively.
6. A circular dartboard has a total radius of 8 inch, with circular bands that are 2 5
inch wide, as shown in figure. Abhinav is still skilled enough to hit this board
100% of the time so he always score at least two points each time he throws a
dart. Assume the probabilities are related to area, on the next dart that he
throws.

(i) What is the probability that he score at least 4?

(ii) What is the probability that he score at least 6?
(iii) What is the probability that he hit bull’s eye?
(iv) What is the probability that he score exactly 4 points?
What is the probability that he score exactly 2 points?
7. 𝑝
On the disc shown , a player spins the arrow twice . The fraction is formed , 5
𝑞
where p is the number of sector where
The arrow stops after first spin and q is the number of sector where the arrow
stops after second spin . On every spin each of the numbered sector has an equal
probability of being the sector on which the arrow stops . What is the
probability that the fraction
𝑝
(i) is greater than 1?
𝑞
𝑝
(ii) is less than 1 ?
𝑞
𝑝
(iii) is equal to 1?
𝑞

8. Two customers are visiting a particular shop in the same week (from Monday to 5
Saturday) . Each is equally likely to visit the shop on any one day as on another
.
(i) List all possible outcomes .
What is the probability that both will visit the shop on :
(ii) the same day ?
(iii) different days ?
(iv) consecutive days?

9. 5
The probability of selecting a red ball at random from a jar that contains only red,
𝟏
blue and orange balls is . The probability of selecting a blue ball at random from the
𝟒
𝟏
same jar . If the jar contains 10 orange balls, find the total number of balls in the jar.
𝟑

10. 5
Cards numbered from 11 to 60 are kept in a box. If a card is drawn at random from
the box, find the probability that the number on the drawn card is
 (i) an odd number (ii) a perfect square number (iii) divisible by 5 (iv) a prime
number less than 20 v) a number divisible by 2 and 3

11. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability that (a) 5 will not come up on 5
either of them? (b) 5 will come up at least once? (c) 5 will come up at both dice?

12. A bag contains 18 balls out of which x balls are red. (i) If one ball is drawn at random from 5
the bag, what is the probability that it is not red? (ii) If 2 more red balls are put in the bag,
the probability of drawing a red ball will be 9/8 times the probability of drawing a red ball in
the first case. Find the value of x.
13. A bag contains 14 balls of which x are white.If 6 more white are added to the bag, the probability of 5
drawing a white ball is 1/2.Find the value of x.
14. A box contains 12 balls of which some are red in colour.If 6 more red balls are put in the box and a 5
ball is drawn at random, the probability of drawing a red ball doubles than what it was before. Find
the number of red balls in the bag.
15. Nishant and Kapil are playing a game of darts. 5
They use this dart board.

Here are the rules of the game:

When your dart is placed in any circular region, you get the points mentioned in that
region.
If your dart strikes outside the circles you get zero points.
During the game all the darts of both Nishant and Kapil fall in the circular region.
The radius of the innermost circle is 7 cm and the width of all other circular regions is 7
cm.
i) Nishant throws the first dart.
What is the probability of Nishant getting a score of 100 in the first throw?
ii) Kapil threw a dart which hits the board. What is the probability of the dart hitting
the outermost circular region on the board?

16. A bag contains 5 red balls and some blue balls. If the probability of drawing a blue ball from 5
the bag is thrice that of a red ball, find the number of blue balls in the bag.

(OR)
A jar contains 54 marbles each of which is blue, green or white. The probability of selecting
a blue marble at random from the jar is 1/3 and the probability of selecting a green marble at
random is 4/9. How many white marbles does the jar contain?
 ANSWERS:

Q. NO ANSWER MARKS
1. ( i) (a) 5
(ii) (b)
(iii) (c)
(iv) (a)
(v) (c)

2. (i) Probability of number 8 = 1/ Total number of balls= 1/15 5

(ii) Probability of a number greater than 15= 0/15 = 0
(iii) Even number balls are 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14
Total no. of even number balls = 7
Probability of an even number ball= no. of even number balls/ Total no. of balls
= 7/15
(iv) multiples of 3 are 3, 6, 9, 12, 15
Probability of multiple of 3 balls = 5/15= 1/3
(v) Solid coloured and even number balls are 2, 4, 6, 8
Required probability = No. of favourable Outcomes / Total no. of Outcomes= 4/15
3. 1.(b) 2.(d). 3.(a). 4.(c). 5.(d) 5
4. 1.(a) 2.(d). 3.(a). 4.(a). 5.(d) 5
5. 21 5
(i)
50
27
(ii)
50
7
(iii)
50
24
(iv)
25
0 and 1
6. 9 5
(i)
16
1
(ii)
4
1
(iii)
16
5
(iv)
16
7
16
7. The possible outcomes are 5
(1,1) ,(1,2) ,(1,3) , (1,4) , (1,5) , (1,6)
(2,1) , (2,2) ,(2,3) , (2,4) ,(2,5) , (2,6)
(3,1) ,(3,2) ,(3,3) , (3,4) , (3,5) , (3,6)
(4,1) ,(4,2) , (4,3) , (4,4) , (4,5) , ( 4,6)
(5,1) , (5,2) , (5,3) , (5, 4) , (5, 5) , (5,6)
(6,1) , (6,2) , (6,3) , (6,4) , (6,5) , (6,6)
 No. of all possible outcomes = 36
𝑝
(i) Let, ‘E ‘ be the event of >1
𝑞
No. of outcome favorable to E = 15
15
P(E ) =
36
𝑝
(ii) Let, ‘F ‘ be the event of <1
𝑞
No. of outcome favorable to F = 15
15
P(F) =
36
𝑝
(iii) Let, ‘G’ be the event of =1
𝑞
No. of outcome favorable to G = 6
6
P(G) =
36

8. 5
Let us consider
Monday ---- M , Tuesday --- T, Wednesday—W , Thursday --- Th ,
Friday—F ,Saturday --- s
No. of all possible outcomes are
(M,M) , (M,T) , (M,W) , (M, Th) , (M, F) , (M,S)
(T , M) , (T , T) , (T ,W) , (T , Th ) , (T ,F ) , (T , S)
(W,M) , ( W ,T) , (W,W) , (W , Th) , (W , F ) , (W, S)
(Th ,M ) , (Th , T ) , (Th , W ) , (Th , Th ) , (Th , F) , (Th ,S )
(F,M) , (F ,T) , (F , W) , (F ,Th ) , ( F , F ) , (F , S)
(S , M) , (S ,T ) , (S , W) , (S ,Th ) , ( S ,F ) , ( S, S )
No. of all possible outcomes = 36
6 1
(i) P( both visit the shop on same day ) = =
36 6

30 5
(ii) P( both visit the shop on different days ) = =
36 6
10 5
(iii) P( both visit the shop on consecutive days ) = =
36 18
9. Let total number of balls in jar =x 5
𝑥
Then number of blue balls in jar =
3

𝑥
And number of red balls =
4
And number of orange balls =10 (given)
𝑥 𝑥
∴x= + +10
3 4
⇒12x=3x+4x+120

⇒12x−7x=120
⇒5x=120
 ⇒x=24
Then total balls in jar is 24.

10. 5
i) Odd numbers from 11 to 60=11, 13, 15... 59
No. of favourable outcomes=25
Total no. of possible outcomes =50
Probability= 25/50=1/2
ii) Perfect square numbers from 11 to 60=16,25,36,49
No. of favourable outcomes=4
Probability= 4/50=2/25
iii) Numbers divisible by 5 from 11 to 60=15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55,60
No. of favourable outcomes=10
Probability=5/50=1/10
iv) Prime numbers less than 20 from 11 to 60=11,13,17,19
No. of favorable outcomes=4
Total no. of possible outcomes =50
Probability=4/50=2/25
v)Numbers divisible by 2 and 3 are 6,12,18,24,30,36,42,48,54,60=10
Probability=10/50=1/5

11. The possible outcomes are 5

1,1 1,2 1,3 1,4 1,5 1,6
2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 2,6
3,1 3,2 3,3 3,4 3,5 3,6
4,1 4,2 4,3 4,4 4,5 4,6
5,1 5,2 5,3 5,4 5,5 5,6
6,1 6,2 6,3 6,4 6,5 6,6

36 − 11 25
(a) probability that 5 will not come up on either of them = =
36 36
11
(b) probability that 5 will not come up at least once =
36
1
( c) probability that 5 will not come up on both dice =
36
12. A bag contains 18 balls out of which x balls are red. (i) If one ball is drawn at random 5
from the bag, what is the probability that it is not red? (ii) If 2 more red balls are put
in the bag, the probability of drawing a red ball will be 9/8 times the probability of
drawing a red ball in the first case. Find the value of x.
x
(i) Probability that it is not red ball = 1 -
18
(ii) If 2 more red balls are put in the bag, the probability of drawing a red ball will
 x+2
be
18 + 2
x+2 9 x
As per the condition, = . The value of x will be 8.
18 + 2 8 18
13. 4 5
14. 3 5
15. ∏(7)×7 5(2+3)
I) Required probability = ∏28×28 =1/16
7×49
II) Required probability=∏(28)2- ∏(21)2/∏(28)2= 28×28 =7/16
16. Let the number of blue balls be x. 5
Total number of balls in the bag=5+x
Therefore, Probability of drawing a red ball=5/5+x
And probability of drawing a blue ball=x/5+x
Given, probability of drawing a blue ball=3×probability of drawing a red ball
Or 3×5/x+5 = x/x+5
Or x=15
Number of blue balls= 15
(OR)
Let there be b blue, g green and w white marbles in the jar. Then , b+g+w=54…….(i)
Therefore, P (selecting a blue marble)= b/54
It is given that the probability of selecting a blue marble is 1/3
So, b/54 = 1/3 ⟹ b = 18
We have,
P( selecting a green marble) = g/54
It is given that
g/54 =4/9
⟹ g = 24
Substituting the values of b and g in (i), we get
18+24+w =54 ⟹w=12