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Ch15 Probability

The document provides 15 probability questions with answers related to events involving coins, dice, cards, balls in bags, and calendars. Examples of questions include the probability of obtaining heads from tossing a coin, getting various numbers or sums from throwing dice, drawing particular cards from a deck, and the number of Sundays in a randomly selected leap year. The answers to the 15 questions are provided following the questions.

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Ch15 Probability

The document provides 15 probability questions with answers related to events involving coins, dice, cards, balls in bags, and calendars. Examples of questions include the probability of obtaining heads from tossing a coin, getting various numbers or sums from throwing dice, drawing particular cards from a deck, and the number of Sundays in a randomly selected leap year. The answers to the 15 questions are provided following the questions.

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ASSIGNMENT PROBABILITY CLASS X

Q1. A coin is tossed. Find the probability that a head is obtained.


Q2. Find probability of throwing 5 with an ordinary dice.
Q3. Probability of winning a game is 0.4. What is the probability of loosing the game?
Q4. A person is known to hit the target in 3 shots out of 4 shots. Find the probability that the target is not
hit.
Q5. Tickets numbered from 1 to 20 are mixed together and a ticket is drawn at random. What is the
probability that the ticket has a number which is multiple of 3 or 7?
Q6. A bag contains 100 identical tokens, on which numbers 1 to 100 are marked. A token is drawn at
random. What is the probability that the number on the token is:
(a) an even number (b) an odd number (c) a multiple of 3 (d) a multiple of 5
(f) a multiple of 3 and 5 (g) a multiple of 3 or 5 (h) a number less than 20
(i) a number greater than 70 (j) a perfect square number (k) a prime number less than 20.
Q7. A card is drawn from a well-shuffled pack of cards. Find the probability that the card drawn is:
(a) a queen (b) a king bearing diamond sign (c) a black card (d) a jack
(e) black and a queen (f) either black or a queen (g) a red card (h) a face card
(i) a diamond or a club (j) neither heart nor a jack (k) a 2 of diamond
(l) an ace of hearts (m) a face card of red color (n) 10 of a black “suit”
Q8. In a simultaneous toss of two coins, find:
(a) P(2 tails) (b) P(exactly one tail) (c) P(no tails) (d) P(at most one head) (e) P(one head)
Q9. A coin is tossed successively three times. Find probability of getting exactly one head or two heads.
Q10. Three coins are tossed once. Find probability of:
(a) 3 heads (b) exactly 2 heads (c) atleast 2 heads (d) atmost 2 heads
(e) no tails (f) head and tail appear alternatively (g) atleast one head and one tail
Q11. A dice is thrown once. Find:
(a) P(number 5) (b) P(number 7) (c) P(an even number) (d) P( a number greater than 4)
(e) P( a number less than or equal to 4) (f) P(a prime number)
Q12. A bag contains 10 white, 6 black and 4 red balls. Find probability of getting:
(a) a white ball (b) a black ball (c) not a red ball (d) a white or a red ball
Q13. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. Find:
(a) P(an odd number as a sum) (b) P(sum as a prime number) (c) P(a doublet of odd numbers)
(d) P(a total of atleast 9) (e) P( a multiple of 2 on one die and a multiple of 3 on other die)
(f) P(a doublet) (g) P(a multiple of 2 as sum) (h) P(getting the sum 9) (i) P(getting a
sum greater than 12) (j) P( a prime number on each die) (k) P( a multiple of 5 as a sum)
Q14. Find the probability that a leap year at random contains 53 Sundays.
Q15. Two black kings and two black jacks are removed from a pack of 52 cards. Find the probability of
getting:
(a) a card of hearts (b) a black card (c) either a red card or a king
(d) a red king (e) neither an ace nor a king (f) a jack, queen or a king
*NOTE: A pack of playing cards consists of 52 cards, which are divided into 4 suits of 13 cards each.
Each suit consists of one ace, one king, one queen, one jack and 9 other cards numbered from 2 to 10.
Four suits are named as spades (), clubs (), hearts () and diamonds (). (Spades & clubs are black,
hearts & diamonds are red)

ANSWERS
Ans(1) 1/2 Ans(2) 1/6 Ans(3) 0.6 Ans(4) 1/4 Ans(5) 2/5 Ans(6) (a) 1/2 (b) 1/2 (c) 33/100 (d) 1/5 (e)
3/50 (f) 47/100 (g) 19/100 (h) 3/10 Ans(7) (a) 1/13 (b) 1/52 (c) 1/2 (d) 1/13 (e) 1/26 (f) 7/13 (g)
1/2 (h) 4/13 (i) 1/2 (j) 9/13 (k) 1/52 (l) 1/52 (m) 3/26 (n) 1/26 Ans(8) (a) 1/4 (b) 1/2 (c) 1/4 (d)
3/5 (e) 1/2 Ans(9) 3/4 Ans(10) (a) 1/8 (b) 3/8 (c) 1/2 (d) 7/8 (e) 1/8 (f) 1/4 (g) 3/4 Ans(11) (a)
1/6 (b) 0 (c) 1/2 (d) 1/3 (e) 2/3 (f) 1/2 Ans(12) (a) 1/2 (b) 3/10 (c) 4/5 (d) 7/10 Ans(13) (a) 1/2 (b)
5/12 (c) 1/12 (d) 5/18 (e) 11/36 (f) 1/6 (g) 1/2 (h) 1/9 (i) 0 (j) 1/12 (k) 7/36 Ans(14) 2/7 Ans(15)
(a) 13/48 (b) 11/24 (c) 13/24 (d) 1/24 (e) 7/8 (f) 1/6

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