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Class - Xii Mathematics Ncert Solutions: Probability Questions

This document contains 19 probability questions and exercises involving concepts like conditional probability, independent events, binomial distribution, expected value, and probability formulas. It asks the reader to calculate probabilities for situations like children's gender, drawing balls from an urn, passing hurdles in a race, throwing dice, and determining probabilities for electronic assembly failures. It also contains multiple choice questions testing understanding of probability relationships like subset, intersection, and conditional probabilities.

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Class - Xii Mathematics Ncert Solutions: Probability Questions

This document contains 19 probability questions and exercises involving concepts like conditional probability, independent events, binomial distribution, expected value, and probability formulas. It asks the reader to calculate probabilities for situations like children's gender, drawing balls from an urn, passing hurdles in a race, throwing dice, and determining probabilities for electronic assembly failures. It also contains multiple choice questions testing understanding of probability relationships like subset, intersection, and conditional probabilities.

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CLASS XII MATHEMATICS NCERT SOLUTIONS

Probability
Miscellaneous Exercise
Questions
1.

A and B are two events such that P (A) 0. Find P (B/A) if:
(i)
A is a subset of B
A B=
(ii)

2.

A couple has two children.


(i)
Find the probability that both children are males I it is known that at least one of the
children is male.
(ii)
Find the probability that both children are females if it is known that the elder child is a
female.
Suppose that 5% of men and 0.25% of women have grey hair. A grey haired person is selected
at random. What is the probability of this person being male? Assume that there are equal
number of males and females.
Suppose that 90% of people are right-handed. What is the probability that at most of 6 of a
random sample of 10 people are right-handed?

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

An urn contains 25 balls of which 10 balls bear a mark X and the remaining 15 bear a mark Y.
A ball is drawn at random from the urn, its mark noted down and it is replaced. If 6 balls are
drawn in this way, find the probability that:
(i)
all will bear X mark.
(ii)
not more than 2 will bear Y mark.
(iii) at least one ball will bear Y mark.
(iv) the number of balls with X mark and Y mark will be equal.
In a hurdle race, a player has to cross 10 hurdles. The probability that he will clear each hurdle
5
is . What is the probability that he will knock down fewer than 2 hurdles?
6
A die is thrown again and again until three sixes are obtained. Find the probability of obtaining
the third six in the sixth throw of the die.
If a leap year is selected at random, what is the change that it will contain 52 Tuesday?

9.

An experiment succeeds twice as often as it fails. Find the probability that in the next six trails,
there will be at least 4 successes.
10. How many times must a man toss a fair coin so that the probability of having at least one head
is more than 90%?
11. In a game a man wins a rupee for a six and looses a rupee for any other number when a fair die
is thrown. The man decided to throw a die thrice but to quit as and when he gets a six. Find the
expected value of the amounts he wins/looses.

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12. Suppose we have four boxes A, B, C and D containing coloured marbles as given below:
Box
Marble colour
Red
White
Black
A
1
6
3
B
6
2
2
1
C
8
1
D
0
6
4
One of the boxes has been selected at random and a single marble is drawn from it. If the
marble is red, what is the probability that it was drawn from box A?, box B? box C?
13. Assume that the chances of a patient having a heart attack is 40%. It is also assumed that a
meditation and yoga course reduces the risk of heart attack by 30% and prescription of certain
drug reduces its chances by 25%. At a time a patient can choose any one of the two options
with equal probabilities. It is given that after going through one of the two options the patient
selected at random suffers a heart attack. Find the probability that the patient followed a
course of meditation and yoga.
14. If each element of a second order determinant is either zero or one, what is the probability that
the value of the determinant is positive? (Assume that the individual entries of the
1
determinant are chosen independently, each value being assumed with probability ).
2
15. An electronic assembly consists of two sub-systems say A and B. From previous testing
procedures, the following probabilities are assumed to be known:
P (A fails) = 0.2
P (B fails alone) = 0.15
P (A and B fail) = 0.15
Evaluate the following probabilities.
16. Bag I contains 3 Red and 4 Black balls and B II contains 4 Red and % Black balls. One ball is
transferred from Bag I to bag II and then a ball is drawn from bag II. The ball so drawn is found
to be Red in colour. Find the probability that the transferred ball is Black.
Choose the correct answer in each of the following:

17. If A and B are two events such that P (A) 0 and P ( B A ) = 1, then:
(A) A B

(B) B A

(C) B =

(D) A =

18. If P ( A B ) > P (A), then which of the following is correct:


(A) P ( B A ) < P (B)

(B) P (A B) < P (A) . P (B)

(C) P ( B A ) > P (B)

(D) P ( B A ) = P (B)

19. If A and B are any two events such that P (A) + P (B) P (A and B) = P (A), then
(A) P ( B A ) = 1

(B) P ( A B ) = 1

(C) P ( B A ) = 0

(D) P ( A B ) = 0

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