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PROBABILITY

1 Three coins are tossed together. Find the probability of getting:


(i) exactly two heads
(ii) at most two heads
(iii) at least one head and one tail
(iv) no tails

2 A and B throw a pair of dice. If A throws 9, find B’s chance of throwing a


higher number.

3 A card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. Find the probability


that the card drawn is
(i) either a black card or a king
(ii) black and a king
(iii) a jack, queen or a king
(iv) neither a heart nor a king
(v) spade or an ace
(vi) neither an ace nor a king
(vii) neither a red card nor a queen
(viii) other than an ace
(ix) neither a king nor a queen

4 Tickets numbered from 1 to 20 are mixed up and a ticket is drawn at


random. What is the probability that the ticket drawn has a number
which is a multiple of 3 or 7?

5 If the probability of winning a game is 0.3, what is the probability of


loosing it ?

6 Find the probability that a number selected from a number 1 to 25 is not


a prime number when each of the given numbers is equally likely to be
selected.

7 A bag contains 8 red, 6 white and 4 black balls. A ball is drawn at


random from the bag. Find the probability that the drawn ball is
(i) red or white
(ii) not black
(iii) neither white nor black.

8 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 probability that the 2
students have the same birthday?
9 Cards marked with numbers 13, 14, 15,……. 60 are placed in a box and
mixed thoroughly. One card is drawn at random from the box. Find the
probability that, number on the card drawn is
(i) divisible by 5
(ii) a number is a perfect square
10 Fill in the blanks :
(i) Probability of a sure event is …….
(ii) Probability of an impossible event is …….. .
(iii) The probability of an event (other than sure and impossible event)
lies between …… .
(iv) Every elementary event associated to a random experiment has ………
probability.
(v) Probability of an event A + Probability of event ‘not A’ = …….. .
(vi) Sum of the probabilities of each outcome in an experiment is ……… .

11 A box contains cards numbered 3,5,7,9, .., 35,37. A card is drawn at


random from the box. Find te probability that the number on the drawn
card is a prime number.

12 A bag contains cards numbered from 1 to 49. A card is drawn from the
bag at random, after mixing the card thoroughly. Find the probability
that the number on the drawn card is
(i) an odd number
(ii) a multiple of 5
(iii) a perfect square
(iv) an even prime number.

13 In a simultaneous throw of a pair of dice, find the probability of getting.


(i) 8 as the sum
(ii) a doublet
(iii) a doublet of prime numbers
(iv) a doublet of odd numbers
(v) a sum greater than 9
(vi) an even number on first
(vii)neither 9 nor 11 as the sum of the numbers on the faces
(viii) a sum less than 6
(ix) at least once
(x)a number other than 5 on any dice.
(xi) even number on each die
(xii) 5 as the sum
(xiii) 2 will come up at least once
(xiv) 2 will not come either time

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