QB10 Mathematics Class X (2022-23)

Chapter 14: Statistics and Chapter 15: Probability

SECTION 1 (1-mark questions)

1. Choose the correct option:

i) In the assumed mean method, if A is the assumed mean, then the deviation di is ________.
A) xi + A B) xi – A C) A – xi D) None of these

ii) The mean of the first 10 prime numbers is _________.

A) 12.4 B) 12.6 C) 13.3 D) 12.9

iii) Find the mean of 30 numbers given mean of ten of them is 12 and the mean of remaining 20 is 9.
A) 10 B) 20 C) 9 D) 15

iv) If median of 15 observations is 40 and mode is also 40, then the mean is ________.
A) 50 B) 60 C) 0 D) 40

v) Which of the following measures of central tendency considers all the observations?
A) Mean B) Mode C) Median D) All of these

vi) Three identical dice are rolled. What is the probability that the same number will appears on each of
them?
A) 1/6 B) 1/36 C) 1/18 D) 3/28

vii) In a frequency distribution, the mid value of a class is 10 and the width of the class is 6. The lower
limit of the class is
A) 6 B) 7 C) 8 D) 12

viii) Assertion (A): If the number of runs scored by 11 players of a cricket team of India are 5, 19, 42, 11,
50, 30, 21, 0, 52, 36, 27 then median is 30.
𝑛+1
Reason(R): Median = ( 2 )𝑡ℎ 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒, 𝑖𝑓 𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑑𝑑.

A) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true and reason (R) is the correct explanation of assertion
(A).
B) Both assertion (A) and reason (R) are true but reason (R) is not the correct explanation of assertion
(A).
C) Assertion (A) is true but reason (R) is false.
D) Assertion (A) is false but reason (R) is true.

ix) For the following distribution

Class 0–5 5 – 10 10 – 15 15 – 20 20 – 25
Frequency 10 15 12 20 9
The sum of lower limits of the median class and modal class is
A) 15 B) 25 C) 30 D) 35

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x) Out of one-digit prime numbers, one number is selected at random. The probability of selecting an
even number is:
A) ½ B) ¼ C) 4/9 D) 2/5

xii) The algebraic sum of the deviations of a frequency distribution from its mean is always,
A) greater than zero B) less than zero C) zero D) a non-zero number

2. For the following distribution

Class Interval 0-5 5-10 10-15 15-20 20-25

Frequency 10 15 12 20 9
the difference of the upper limit of the median class and the lower limit of the modal class is _______.

3. To win a price in a game, you need to first choose one of the 4 doors, 1, 2, 3, 4 and then need to
choose one of the three boxes A, B, C and then need to choose between two colors red and green.
How many of the possible outcomes of this game include selecting Box A and red color?

4. Seerat has a box containing four cards labelled A, B, C and D. She randomly picks a card from the
box, records the label on the card and put it back in the box. She repeats this experiment 80 times and
records her observation in the table shown below:

Card A 11
Card B 16
Card C 25
Card D 28
Which of the following shows the empirical probability and theoretical probability of picking Card C
the next time?
A) Empirical probability = 5/16; Theoretical probability = ¼
B) Empirical probability = 5/16; Theoretical probability = ½
C) Empirical probability = 5/11; Theoretical probability = ¼
D) Empirical probability = 5/11; Theoretical probability = ½

5. Of 50 students in a class, 16 prefer cricket, 8 prefer football, 7 prefer basketball and rest of the
students
prefer either tennis or hockey. There are twice as many students who prefer tennis as the number of
students who prefer hockey. A student is randomly selected from the class. Which statement is
correct?
A) The probability of selecting a student who prefer tennis is more than that of selecting a
student who prefer cricket.
B) The probability of selecting a student who prefer hockey is more than that of selecting a
student who prefer cricket.
C) The probability of selecting a student who prefer hockey is more than that of selecting a
student who prefer tennis.
D) The probability of selecting a student who prefer basketball is more than that of selecting
a student who prefer cricket.

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 Section B (2 markers)

6. The mean of 11 observation is 50. If the mean of first six observations is 49 and that of last six
observation is 52, then find sixth observation.

7. A bag contains 14 balls, of which x are white. If 6 more white balls are added to the bag, the
probability of drawing a white ball is 1/2. Find the value of x.

8. In a leap year, find the probability that there are 53 Tuesdays in the year.

9. Geeta and Sita are friends. What is the probability that both will have
(a) different birthdays? (b) the same birthday?

10. A lot consists of 48 mobile phones of which 42 are good, 3 have only minor defects and 3 have major
defects. Saroj will buy a phone if it is good but the trader will buy a mobile if it has no major defect.
One phone is selected at random from the lot. What is the probability that it is
(a) acceptable to Saroj?
(b) acceptable to the trader?

11. Find the probability that a non-leap year has 53 Sundays.

Section C (3 markers)

12. Find the median for the following data:

Marks No. of students
Less than 20 0
Less than 30 4
Less than 40 16
Less than 50 30
Less than 60 46
Less than 70 66
Less than 80 82
Less than 90 92
Less than 100 100

13. In the figure, each circle touches other two circles externally. The circles are
congruent. If a point is selected at random from the interior of square PQRS, find the
probability that it will not be in the shaded region.

14. Find the mode of the following data.

15. 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, then find the probability of
getting a red ball. If the bag contains 20 black balls, then find the total number of balls in the bag.

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16. The mean and median of 100 observation are 50 and 52 respectively. The value of the largest
observation is 100. It was later found that it is 110. Find the true mean and median.

17. If the median of the following data is 240, then find the value of f:

Classes 0 – 100 100 – 200 200 – 300 300 – 400 400 – 500 500 – 600 600 – 700
Frequency 15 17 f 12 9 5 2

18. The sum of deviations of a set of values 𝑥1 , 𝑥2 , 𝑥3 , … , 𝑥𝑛 measured from 50 is -10 and the sum of
deviations of the values from 46 is 70. Find the value of n and the mean.

19. The mean of n observations is x, if the first term is increased by 1, second by 2 and so on. What will
be the new mean?

20. A bag contains 5 red balls and some blue balls. If the probability of drawing a blue ball at random
from the bag is three times that of a red ball, find the number of blue balls in the bag.

21. The mode of a distribution is 55 and the modal class is 45-60 and the frequency preceding the modal
class is 5 and the frequency after the modal class is 10. Find the frequency of the modal class.

22. If the median of the following frequency distribution is 32.5. Find the values of f1 and f2.

Class 0 - 10 10 - 20 20 - 30 30 - 40 40 - 50 50 - 60 60 - 70 Total
Frequency 𝑓1 5 9 12 𝑓2 3 2 40

23. The mean monthly wages of a group of 15 workers in a factory was ₹33510. 4 workers whose mean
monthly wage was ₹33100 left the factory and a new worker at a monthly wage of ₹30250 was
appointed. Find the mean wage of the remaining group.

24. A bag contains 8 red balls and x blue balls, the odd against drawing a blue ball are 2: 5. What is the
value of x?

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26. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability that
(i) 5 will not come up on either of them?
(ii) 5 will come up on at least one?
(iii) 5 will come up at both dice?

Section D - Case Study Based questions (4 markers)

27. A die is numbered in such a way that its faces show the numbers 1, 3, 3, 4, 2, 6. It is thrown twice and
the product of the score is noted. Complete the table and answer the questions below

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 i) What is the probability for the product to be 18?
A)1/6 B) 1/36 C) 1/18 D) 1/9

ii) What is the probability if the product of the numbers is odd?

A)1/4 B) 1/6 C) 2/9 D) 1/18

iii) What is the probability if the product of the numbers is at least 10?
A)1/6 B) 11/18 C) 7/18 D) 2/3

iv) The probability of getting the product as only even prime number is-
A)1/4 B) 1/36 C) 1/9 D) 1/18

28. A 100 m Race was organized in a school sports meet. The time was recorded with the help of a
stopwatch.

A table shown below describes the time in which the race was finished by the number of students

Time (in sec.) 0 - 20 20 - 40 40 - 60 60 - 80 80 - 100

No. of students 6 13 10 3 8

Based on the above data answer the questions:

i) What will be the lower limit of the modal class?
A)30 B) 40 C) 60 D) 20

ii) The average time taken by the student to finish the race is –
A)40 B)47 C) 50 D)30

iii The cumulative frequency table is constructed to determine-

) A) Mean B) Mode C) Median D) All of the above

iv How many students finished the race within 1 minute?

) A)30 B) 40 C)19 D)29

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 Section E (5 markers)

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30. Pawan throws two different dice together and finds the product of the two numbers obtained.
Riya throws a die and squares the number obtained.
a) What is the total number of possible outcomes for Riya?
b) How many outcomes are common for Pawan and Riya? Also mention the common outcomes.
c) Who has the better chance to get the number 25?

31. What is the probability that the month of December had exactly 5 Sundays, 5 Mondays and 5
Tuesdays?

32. In the adjoining figure ABCD is a square with sides of length 6 units points P & Q are the mid points
of the sides BC & CD respectively. If a point is selected at random from the interior of the square
what is the probability that the point will be chosen from the interior of the triangle APQ.

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35. If the mean of the following frequency distribution is 91, and sum of frequency is 150, find the
missing frequency x and y. Also find the median and mode for the data.

Class 0 – 30 30 – 60 60 – 90 90 – 120 120 – 150 150 – 180

Frequency 12 21 x 52 Y 11

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