ASSIGNMENT SHEET 14.. A pair of dice is thrown once.

What is the probability that 5

PROBABILITY will come up at least on one die ?

15. An integer is chosen between 0 and 100. Find the probability

1. 20 cards numbered 1, 2, 3,......20 are put in a box and mixed that the number is divisible by 3 and 5 both.
thoroughly. Then, a card is drawn from the box. Find the 16. A pair of dice is thrown once. Find the probability of getting a
probility that the number on the card is : number greater than 4 on each die.
(i) a prime (ii) divisible by 3. 17. A bag contains 24 marbles, some of which are green and oth-
2. A card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 playing cards. Find ers are blue. A marble is drawn at random form the bag. If the
the probability that the card drawn is neither 2
probability that it is green is , then find the number of the
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an ace nor a queen. blue marbles be x.
3. Two unbiased coins are tossed once. What is the 18. A game consists of tossing a one rupee coin 3 times and noting
probability of getting exactly one tail ? its out come each time, Ram wins if he gets either all heads or
4. A pair of dice is tossed once. Find the probability all tails, and loses otherwise. Find the probability that he will
of getting a sum of 7 on the two dice. lose the game.
5. A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow which comes 19. A Jar contains blue and green marbles. The number of green
to rest pointing at one of the numbers marbles is 5 more than twice the number of blue marbles If
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and these are equally likely 2
probability of drawing a blue one at random is , hwo many
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outcomes. What is the probability that it will point at blue and green marbles are there in the jar ?
(i) a prime number ? (ii) a factor of 8 ? 20. A bag contains 5 red balls and some blue balls. If the probabil-
6. A card is drawn from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find ity of drawing a blue ball is double that a red ball, determine
the probability that it is : the number of blue balls in the bag.
(i) an ace (ii) a king of spades. 21. A bag contains 5 red balls and some blue balls. If the probabil-
7. Two coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the ity of drawing a blue ball from the bag is thrice that of red ball,
probability of gatting at least one head. find the number of blue balls in the bag.
8. A die is tossed once. Find the probability of getting 22. What is the probability that there are 53 Wednesdays in a
an even number or a multiple of 3. leap year ?
9. Three coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the 32. Find the probability that a non-leap year chosen at ran-
probability of getting exactly two heads. dom has (i) 52 Sundays, (ii) 53 Sundays.
10. A letter is chosen at random from the English alphabets. Find 23. Anita, Sita, Gita and Rita are four friends. What is the
the probability that it is : probability that (in a nonleap year)
(i) a vowel (ii) a consonant (i) All will have same birthday.
11. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability : (ii) Their birthdays fall in the month of October.
(a) sum is less than 5 (ii) a doublet appear (iii) Their birthdays fall on 10th day of the months.
12. If there are 2 children in a family, find the probability that (iv) Their birthdays fall in January of February.
there is at least one boy in the family. 24. Three unbiased coins are tossed together. What is the prob-
13. A bag contains lemon flavoured candy only. Malini takes ability of getting
out one candy without looking into the bag. What is the (a) two heads, (b) at least two heads,
probability that the she takes out : (c) at most two heads.
25. Two dice, one blue and one grey are thrown at the same time. 32. (i) A lot of 20 bulbs contain 5 defective bulbs. One bulb

Write down all the possible outcomes. What is the probability is drawn at random from the lot. What is the probability

that : that it is defective ?

(i) sum of the two numbers appearing on the dice is 9. (ii) Suppose the bulb drawn in (i) is not defective and is

(ii) numbers appearing on top of dice are same. not replaced. Now one bulb is drawn random from the

(iii) sum of two numbers appearing on the dice is less than 12. rest. What is the probability that this bulb is not defec-

26. From the numbers 1, 2, 3 one number x is selected and from tive ?

the numbers 1, 4, 9 second number y is selected. Find the prob- (iii) Suppose the bulb drawn in (i) is defective and is not

ability that the : replaced. Now one bulb is drawn at random from the

(i) Product of two numbers is less than 9. rest. What is the probability that this bulb is :

(ii) product of two numbers is more than 13. (a) defective (b) not defective ?

(iii) sum of two numbers is 12. 33. One card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards.

27. King, queen and jack of hearts are removed from a pack of 52 Find the probability of getting :

playing cards and the probability of getting a card of : (i) a face card. (ii) a king

(i) hearts (ii) a queen of red colour.

(iii) not a king (iii) a spade. (iv) a 10 of

28. A bag contains 18 balls out of which x balls are red. black colour.

(i) If one ball is drawn at random from the bag, what is prob- 34. In the beginning of the session, there where 40 students

ability that it is a red ball ? in class X, out of which 19 were girls and 21 were boys.

(ii) If 2 more red balls are put in the bag, the probability of 7 studnets got promoted after compartment examination
9 out of which 4 were girls and 3 boys. Who has the more
drawing a red ball will be times that of probability of red
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ball coming in part (i). Find x. probability of getting selected as the class monitor ? What

29. A group consists of 12 persons, of which 3 are extremely pa- is the difference between their probabilities ?

tient, other 6 are extremely honest and rest are extremely kind. 35. What is the probability that a number selected at random

A person from the group is selected at random. Assuming that from the number 1,2,2,3,3,3,4,4,4,4 will be their average ?

each person is equally likely to be selected., find the probabil- 36. A child has a block in the shape of a cube with one letter or

ity of selectiong a person who is (i) extremely patient (ii) ex- digit written on each face as shown below :

tremely kind or honest. Which of the above values you

prefer more ?

30. A box contains discs which are numbered from 5 to 94. If one The cube is thrown once. Find the probability of getting :

disc is drawn at random from the box, find the probability that (a) a multiple of 4. (b) D

it bears : 37. What is the probability of a certain event ?

(i) a two digit number 38. Can-1.5 be the probability of an event ?

(ii) a perfect square number

(iii) a number divisible by 7

(iv) a number which is divisible by 10.

31. 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