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BEST HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL CHAPTER 10 ASSIGNMENT

Answer the following for 1 Mark. 01. P(A) + P(A') = . (A) 0 (B) -1 (C) 2 (D) 1 02. A coin is tossed and a dice is rolled. The probability that the coin shows the head and the dice shows 6 is 1 1 1 (A) 12 (B) 8 (C) 1 (D) 2 03. If there dice are tossed once, the number of elements in the sample space is .. (A) 108 (B) 64 (C) 216 (D) 729 04. The letters of the word "article" are arranged at random. The probability that the vowels may occupy even places is 8 6 1 7 (A) 35 (B) 35 (C) 35 (D) 35 05. The probability that a leap year has 53 Sundays is .. (A) 2/7 (B) 3/7 (C) 1/7 (D) 4/7 06. Let A and B be two possible outcomes of an experiment and suppose P(A) = 0.4, P(A B) = 0.7 and P(B) = p. If

P(A B) = P(A) . P(B) then p = (A) 0.3 (B) 0.5 (C) 1 (D) 0.1
07. A fair coin is tossed repeatedly. If tail appears on first four tosses, then the probability of head appearing on fifth toss equals: (A) 1/5 (B) 1/2 (C) 1/2 (D) 1/32 08. Three letters are to be sent to different person and addresses on the three envelope are also written. Without looking at the

addresses, the probability that the letters go into the right envelope is equal to
1 (A) 27 1 (B) 9 1 (C) 6 4 (D) 27

09. A die has two faces each with number '1' three faces each with number '2' and one face with number '3' If die is rolled once,

then P(2) = .
1 (A) 6 5 (B) 6 1 (C) 3 1 (D) 2

10. A sample space consists of three mutually independent and equally likely events. The probability of happening of each one of them is equal to: (A) 1/3 (B) 0 (C) None of these (D) 1

Answer the following for 2 Marks. 11. A police -man fires six bullest on a dacoit. The Probability that the dacoit will be killed by one bullet is 0.6. The Probability that dacoit is still alive is (A) 0.004096 (B) 0.04096 (C) 0.4096 (D) None of these 12. From eight cards numbers 1 to 80, two cards are selected randomly. The probability that both the cards have numbers

divisible by 4 is given by
19 316 (A)

1 (B) 40

21 (C) 316

1 (D) 4

13. Two dice are thrown together. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers on the two faces is neither divisible by 3 nor by 4 (A) (1/3) (B) (4/9) (C) (2/9) (D) (1/9)

14. A six faced dice is so biased that it is twice as likely to show an even number as an odd number when thrown. It is thrown twice. The probability that the sum of two numbers thrown is even is: (A) 1/12 (B) 5/9 (C) 1/3 (D) 1/6 15. A biased dice is tossed and respective probabilities of showing up various faces are

Face 1 2 3 4 5 6 Probability 0.10 0.20 0.23 0.18 0.15 0.14 The probability that the dice shows an even number or a prime number is ..
1 (B) 2

(A) 0.52

(C) 0.48

(D) 0.09

Answer the following for 3 Marks. 16. Let A and B be two events such that P( (A B)' ) = 1/6 P(A B) = 1/4 and P(A') = 1/4. Then event A and B are (A) mutually exclusive and independent (B) independent but not equally likely (C) equally likely and mutually exclusive (D) equally likely but not independent 17. A class consist of 16 student, 6 girls and 10 boys. For the prayer 3 students are chosen at random from the class. The

probability that, (i) exactly two boys are selected is (ii) at least one boy is selected is . (iii) exactly two girls are selected is
(A)

(i)

27 1 15 (ii) (iii) 56 28 56

(B)

(i)

27 27 15 (ii) (iii ) 28 56 56

(C)

(i)

27 27 15 (ii) (iii ) 56 28 56

(D)

(i)

3 27 1 (ii) (iii) 14 56 28

18. Of 10 girls in a class, 3 have blue eyes. If 2 of the girls are chosen at random, the probability that (i) both have blue eyes

. (ii) neither has blue eyes . (iii) at least one has blue eyes
(A)

(i)

1 7 8 (ii) (iii) 15 15 15

(B)

(i)

1 8 7 (ii ) (iii ) 15 15 15

(C)

(i)

8 1 7 (ii) (iii) 15 15 15

(D)

(i)

8 7 1 (ii ) (iii ) 15 15 15

19. If P(B) = 3/4, P (A B C') = 1/3 and P(A' B C') = 1/3 then P(B C) is . (A) 1/15 (B) 1/12 (C) 1/6 (D) 1/9 20. In a class of 80 students in a school, 26 like tea, 60 like coffee, and 20 like both tea as well as coffee. One student is selected at random from this class. What is the probability that the selected student likes only tea or only coffee? (A) 27/40 (B) 23/40 (C) 9/40 (D) 7/40 21. If three distinct numbers are chosen randomly from the first 100 natural numbers. Then the probability that all three are

divisible by both 2 and 3 is


(A) 4/1155 (B) 4/35 (C) 4/33 (D) 4/55

Answer the following for 4 Marks. 22. A bag contains 9 red, 7 white and 4 black balls. A ball is drawn at random. What is the probability that the ball drawn will

be (i) red (ii) black (iii) white or black (iv) red or black ?

9 1 13 11 (ii) (iii) (iv) 20 5 20 20 (A) 13 11 1 9 (i) (ii) (iii ) (iv) 20 20 5 20 (i)

(B)

(i)

9 1 11 13 (ii) (iii ) (iv ) 20 5 20 20

1 9 11 13 (i) (ii ) (iii) (iv) 5 20 20 20 (C)

(D)

23. A die is thrown, the probability of events (i) A prime number will appear (ii) A number less than or equal o one will

appear .. (iii) A number more than 6 will appear . (iv) A number less than 6 will appear .
(A)

(i)

1 1 1 (ii) (iii ) 0 (iv ) 6 6 6

(B)

(i)

1 1 5 (ii) (iii ) 0 (iv) 2 6 6

(C)

(i)

1 1 1 5 (ii) 0 (iii ) (iv) 2 6 6 6

(D)

(i)

1 1 1 (ii) (iii) 0 (iv) 4 6 4

24. Three coins are tossed once. The probability of getting (i) 3 heads .. (ii) no head (iii) 3 tails (iv) no tail . 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 (i) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii ) (iv) (i) (ii ) (iii ) (iv) (i) 0 (ii) 1 (iii) (iv) 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 2 8 (A) (B) (C) (D)

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