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15.probability Important Questions PDF

This document contains probability questions ranging from 1 to 4 marks. For the 1 mark questions, students are asked to calculate simple probabilities like the likelihood of rolling a prime number on a die or getting a number over 4. The 2 mark questions involve probabilities of coin tosses. The 3 mark questions cover card draws and other scenarios. The longest, 4 mark questions involve more complex probability word problems relating to cards, coins in a piggy bank, marbles in a jar, discs in a box, and card draws from a deck.

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15.probability Important Questions PDF

This document contains probability questions ranging from 1 to 4 marks. For the 1 mark questions, students are asked to calculate simple probabilities like the likelihood of rolling a prime number on a die or getting a number over 4. The 2 mark questions involve probabilities of coin tosses. The 3 mark questions cover card draws and other scenarios. The longest, 4 mark questions involve more complex probability word problems relating to cards, coins in a piggy bank, marbles in a jar, discs in a box, and card draws from a deck.

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Probability

[1 mark questions]

1. A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting ‘a prime number’.


2. A die is thrown once. What is the probability that it shows a number greater
than 4?
3. Two different dice are tossed together. Find the probability that the product of
the two numbers on the top of the dice is 6.
4. A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting a number which is either a
multiple of 2 or of 3.

[2 marks questions]

5. A coin is tossed two times. Find the probability of getting at most one head.

[3 marks questions]

6. A card is draw form a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of


getting
(a) A king of red colour
(b) A jack of hearts
7. Cards marked with numbers 5 to 50 are placed in a box and mixed thoroughly.
A card is drawn from the box at random. Find the probability that the number
on the taken out card is
(i) A prime number less than 10.
(ii) A number which is a perfect square.
8. Two customers Shyam and Ekta are visiting a particular shop in the same week
(Tuesday to Saturday). Each is equally likely to visit the shop on any day as
another day. What is the probability that both will visit the shop on (i) the same
day? (ii) consecutive day? (iii) different day?
9. The probability of selecting a red ball at random from a jar that contains only
red, blue and orange balls is ¼. The probability of selecting a blue ball at
random from the same jar is 1/3. If the jar contains 10 orange balls, find the
total number of balls in the jar.

[4 marks questions]

10. A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find the
probability that the card drawn is neither a red card nor a queen.
11. A piggy bank contains hundred 50 p cons, twenty Rs 1 coins, fifty Rs 2 cons
and ten Rs 5 coins. If it is equally likely that one of the coins will fall out when
the bank is turned upside down, what is the probability that the coin.

(i) Will be a 50 p coin?


(ii) Will be a Rs 1 coin or Rs 2 coin?
(iii) Will not be Rs 1 coin?
(iv) Will neither be Rs 2 coin nor Rs 5 coin?
12. A jar contains 24 marbles, some are green and others are blue, if a marble is
drawn at random from the jar, the probability that it is green is 2/3. Find the
number of blue marbles in the jar.
13. A box contains 90 discs which are numbered form 1 to 90. If one disc is drawn
at random from the box, find the probability that it bears (i) a two-digit number
(ii) a perfect square number (iii) a number divisible by 5.
14. Five cards – the ten, jack, queen, king and ace of diamonds, are well-shuffled
with their face downwards. Once card is then picked up at random.

(i) What is the probability that the card is the queen?


(ii) If the queen is drawn and put aside, what is the probability that the
second card picked up is (a) an ace? (b) a queen?
Answers

1. ½
2. 1/3
3. 1/9
4. 2/3
5. ¾
6. (a) 1/26 (b) 1/52
7. (a) 1/23 (b) 5/46
8. (i) 1/5 (ii) 4/25 (iii) 4/3
9. 24
10. 6/13
11. (a) 5/9 (b) 7/18 (c) 8/9 (d) 2/3
12. 8
13. (i) 9/10 (ii) 1/10, (ii) 1/5
14. (a) 1/5 (b) (i) ¼ , (ii) 0

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