Long Answer Type Questions

1. Cards marked with numbers 3, 4, 5, .........,50 are placed in a box and and
mixed thoroughly. One card is drawn at random from the box, find the
probability that the number on the drawn card is
(i) divisible by 7 (ii) a number, which is a perfect sqaure .
2. A bag contains 5 white balls, 7 red balls, 4 black balls and 2 blue balls. One
ball is drawn at random from the bag. Find the probability that the balls
drawn are
(i) White or blue (ii) red or black
(iii) not white (iv) neither white nor black
3. The king, queen and jack of diamonds are removed from a pack of 52 playing
cards and the pack is well shuffled. A card is drawn from the remaining cards.
Find the probability of getting a card of
(i) diamond (ii) a jack
4. In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 25 are empty. Find the probability of
getting a prize.

5. The probability of a defective egg in a lot of 400 eggs is 0.035. Calculate the
number of defective eggs in the lot. Also calculate the probability of taking out
a non defective egg from the lot.
6. In a fair at a game stall, slips marked with numbers 3,3,5,7,7,7,9,9,9,11 are
placed in a box. A person wins if the mean of numbers are written on the slip.
What is the probabilty of his losing the game?
7. A box contains 90 discs which are numbered from 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.

8. A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled deck of playing cards. Find
the probability that the card drawn is
(i) a card of spade or an ace (ii) a red king
(iii) neither a king nor a queen (iv) either a king or a queen .

9. A card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of playing cards. Find the
probability that the card drawn is
(i) a face card
(ii) red colour face card
(iii) black colour face card
10. Ramesh got Rs. 24000 as Bonus. He donated Rs. 5000 to temple. He gave
Rs. 12000 to his wife, Rs. 2000 to his servant and gave rest of the amount to his
daughter. Calculate the probability of
(i) wife’s share
(ii) Servant’s Share
(iii)daughter’s share.

11. 240 students reside in a hostel. Out of which 50% go for the yoga classes
early in the morning, 25% go for the Gym club and 15% of them go for the
morning walk. Rest of the students have joined the laughing club. What is the
probability of students who have joined laughing club?
12. An urn contains 9 red, 7 white and 4 black balls. A ball is drawn at random.
Find the probability that the ball drawn is :
(i) not red
(ii) white or black
(iii) red or white
(iv) white

13. If odds in favour of an event be 2:3, find the probability of non occurrence
of this event
If odds against an event be 3:4, find the probability of occurrence of this event.

14. A jar contains 24 marbles, some are green and others are blue. I f 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.

15. Two unbiased dice are rolled simultaneously.

(i) Write the sample space of this experiment
(ii) Find the probability of getting a product of 12?
(iii) Find the probability that the number appearing on one die is the square of
other.
(iv) Find the probability that the sum of the numbers appearing on both dice is
greater than 12.

16. In a family of three children, find the probability of having

(i) at least one girl (ii) at most 1 girl (iii) at most 2 boys (iv) no boys

17. A box contains 90 discs which are numbered from 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
(iv) a number which is multiple of 2 and 3.
18. Cards numbered 1,2 ,3,4 5, ……17 are put in a box and mixed thoroughly.
One person draws a card from the box. Find the probability that the number on
the card is
(i) an odd number
(ii) a prime number
(iii) divisible by 3
(iv) a multiple of 3 or 5
19. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability that
(i) 6 will come up on at least one?
(ii) 6 will not come up on either of them.
(iii) 6 will come up at both dice .

20. Two boys are visiting a particular park in the same week ( Sunday to
Friday). Each is equally likely to visit the park on any one day as on other. What
is the probability that both will visit the shop on
(i) the same day?
(ii) different days?
(iii) consecutive days?
SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

1. Two dice are thrown together. Find the probability that the product of the
numbers on the top of the dice is (i) 6 (ii) 12 (iii) 7

2. A die is thrown twice. What is the probability that (i) 5 will not come up
either time? (ii) 5 will come up at least once?

3. A lot consists of 144 ball pens of which 20 are defective and the others are
good. Nuri will buy a pen if it is good, but will not buy if it is defective. The
shopkeeper draws one pen at random and gives it to her. What is the probability
that (i) She will buy it ? (ii) She will not buy it?

4. One card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability
of getting (i) a king of red colour (ii) a face card (iii) a red face card (iv) the jack
of hearts (v) a(v) a spade (vi) the queen of diamonds.

5. Five cards—the ten, jack, queen, king and ace of diamonds, are well-shuffled
with their face downwards. One 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?

6. 12 defective pens are accidentally mixed with 132 good ones. It is not
possible to just look at a pen and tell whether or not it is defective. One pen is
taken out at random from this lot. Determine the probability that the pen taken
out is a good one.

7. A piggy bank contains hundred 50p coins, fifty Re 1 coins, twenty Rs 2 coins
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 not be a Rs 5 coin?

8. A box contains 5 red marbles, 8 white marbles and 4 green marbles. One
marble is taken out of the box at random. What is the probability that the marble
taken out will be (i) red ?
(ii) white ?
(iii) not green?

9. (i) A lot of 20 bulbs contain 4 defective ones. One bulb is drawn at random
from the lot.
What is the probability that this bulb is defective?
(ii) Suppose the bulb drawn in is not defective and is not replaced. Now one
bulb is drawn at random from the rest. What is the probability that this bulb is
not defective ?

10. A box contains 90 discs which are numbered from 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.

11. A carton consists of 100 shirts of which 88 are good, 8 have minor defects
and 4 have major defects. Jimmy, a trader, will only accept the shirts which are
good, but Sujatha, another trader, will only reject the shirts which have major
defects. One shirt is drawn at random from the carton. What is the probability
that (i) it is acceptable to Jimmy? (ii) it is acceptable to Sujatha?

12. Two customers are visiting a particular shop in the same week (Monday to
Saturday). Each is equally likely to visit the shop on any day as on another day.
What is the probability that both will visit the shop on (i) the same day? (ii)
consecutive days? (iii) different days.

13. A bag contains 5 red balls and some blue balls. If the probability of drawing
a blue ball is double that of a red ball, determine the number of blue balls in the
bag.
14. A box contains 12 balls out of which x are black. If one ball is drawn at
random from the box,what is the probability that it will be a black ball? If 6
more black balls are put in the box, the probability of drawing a black ball is
now double of what it was before. Find x
.
15. 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 Find the
number of blue marbles in the jar.
16. A bag contains mango flavoured candies only. Ram takes out one candy
without looking into the bag. What is the probability that he takes out (i) an
oranged flavoured candy (ii) a mango flavoured candy.
17. A box contains 600 screws, one tenth are rusted. One screw is taken out at
random from this box. Find the probability that it is a good screw.
18. If 65% of the population have black eyes, 25% have brown eyes and the
remaining have blue eyes. What is the probability that a person selected at
random has
(i) blue eyes
(ii) brown or black eyes
(iii) neither blue nor brown eyes

19. Find the probability that the month of February may have five Wednesdays
(i) In a leap year
(ii) in a non-leap year

20. Two coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting
(i) at least one tail
(ii) at most two tails
(iii) at least two tails
21. A bag contains 5 red balls and some blue balls. If the probability of drawing
a blue ball is double that of a red ball, find the number of balls in the bag.

22. Find the probability that a number selected at random from the numbers
1, 2, 3, 4, …….35 is a
(i) Prime number
(ii) Divisible by 3 or 5
(iii) Multiple of 7

23. All the three face cards of spades are removed from a well shuffled pack of
playing cards. A card is then drawn at random from the remaining pack. Find
the probability of getting
(i) a black face card
(ii) a queen
(iii) a black card

24 A child’s game has 8 triangles of which 3 are blue and rest are red and 10
squares of which 6 are blue and rest are red. One piece was lost at random. Find
the probability that it was a
(i) square of blue colour
(ii) triangle of red colour
(iii) square

25.A die has six faces marked as 0,1,1,1,6,6. If it is thrown once what is the
probability of getting
(i) an even face
(ii) 1
(iii) 0 or 6
 VERY SHORT ANSWER TYPE QUESTIONS

1. Find the probability of getting one head if a coin is thrown twice.

2. One card is drawn at random from a pack of cards. Find the probability of
getting a jack.

3. One card is drawn at random from a pack of cards. Find the probability of
getting a diamond card.

4. A die is thrown once. What is the probability of getting an even prime

number?
5. A die is thrown twice. What is the probability that the same number will
come up either time. 6. In a leap year what is the probability of 53 Sundays.

6. One card is drawn from the well shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find the
probability of getting a black face card.

7. If P(E) = 27% then what is the probability of not occurrence of event E?

8. Usha and Aastha are two friends. What is the probability that their birthday
falls on the same day 14 November 2019?

9. One alphabet is chosen out of the alphabets of the word “BHARTIYA”.

What will be the probability of getting a vowel?

10. Two friends were born in the year 2000. What is the probability that they
both have the same birthday.

11. A die is thrown once. What is the probability of getting a prime number?
12. A bag contains 6 red and 5 blue balls. One ball is drawn at random from
the bag. Find the probability that the ball drawn is blue.

13. A pair of dice is thrown once. What is the probability of getting the sum
on both the die as 11.
14. In a non - leap year, what is the probability of 53 Mondays?

15. A card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 playing cards. Find the
probability that the card drawn is neither an ace nor a king.

16. Out of 250 bulbs in a box, 35 bulbs are defective. One bulb is taken out at
random from the box. Find the probability that the drawn bulb is not defective.
17. Non Occurance of any event is 3:4. What is the probability of occurance of
this event?

18. If 29 is removed from (1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 29) then find the probability of
getting a prime number.

19. A card is drawn at random from a deck of playing cards. Find the
probability of getting a face card.

20. In 1000 lottery tickets there are 5 prize winning tickets. Find the probability
of winning a prize if a person buys one ticket.

21. One card is drawn at random from a pack of cards. Find the probability that
it is a black card.

22. A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting a perfect square.

23. Two dice are rolled simultaneously. Find the probability that the sum of the
two numbers appearing on the top is more than and equal to 10.

24. Find the probability of multiples of 7 in 1, 2, 3, .......,33, 34, 35.

25. What is the probability of getting a triplet if a die is rolled thrice ?

 MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

1. The probability of a sure event is

(A) 0 (B) (C) 1 (D) 2
2.What is the probability of getting a head in a single toss of a coin ?
(A) (B) 1 (C) 0 (D)
3. What is the probability of getting a doublet if two dice are thrown
once ?
(A) (B) (C) (D)
4. What is the probability of getting an even number if a die is thrown
once ?
(A) (B) (C) (D)
5. Two coins are tossed once. What is the probability of getting both
heads?
(A) (B) (C) (D)
6. The event whose probability is 0 is called
(A) sure event (B) impossible event( C) unsure event (D) None
of these.
7. The probability that cannot exist among the following is
(A) (B) (C) (D)
8. If P(E ) = 0.07, then P(E’) is
(A) (B) (C) (D)
9. A bag has 3 red balls and 5 green balls. What is the probability of
drawing a ball which is red ?
(A) (B) (C) (D)
10. A bag has 8 red marbles,5 white marbles and 4 purple marbles. What
is the probability of drawing a marble which is not purple ?
(A) (B) (C) (D)
11. Two dice are thrown once, What is the probability of getting a sum
as 3 ?
(A) (B) (C) (D)
12. A card is drawn from a well shuffled pack of playing cards. What is
the probability og getting a queen ?
(A) (B) (C) (D)
13. What is the probability that a leap year has 53 Sundays?
(A) (B) (C) (D)
14. What is the probability that a prime number is selected at random
from the numbers 1,2,3……35 ?
(A) (B) (C) (D) None of these

15. What is the number of possible outcomes when three coins are tossed
once?
(A) 4 (B) 216 (C) 16 (D) 8

16. Three coins are tossed once. What is the probability of getting at least
two heads?
(A) (B) (C) (D) None of these

17A letter is chosen at random from the word ASSASSINATION. What

is the probability that the chosen letter is a vowel?
(A) (B) (C) 1 (D) None of these
18. What is the probability of drawing a non ace card from a well
shuffled pack of playing cards?
(A) (B) (C) (D)
19. What is the probability of drawing a black card from a well shuffled
pack of playing cards ?
(A) (B) (C) (D)

20. What is the probability of drawing a red card from a well shuffled
pack of playing cards which is neither a face card nor an ace?

(A) (B) (C) (D)

21. A single die is rolled. What is the probability of getting 1 or an even
number is
(A) (B) (C) (D)
22. What is the probability of drawing an honours card card from a well
shuffled pack of playing cards?

(A) (B) (C) (D)

23. What is the probability of a number chosen from 12 to 38 is a
multiple of 3 ?
(A) (B) (C) (D)
24. What is the probability of a number chosen between 10 and 100 is
divisible by 5 ?
(A) (B) (C) (D)

25. What is the probability of drawing a 9 of heart from a well shuffled

pack of playing cards.

(A) (B) (C) (D)

COMPETENCY BASED QUESTIONS
1. If a number x is chosen at random from the numbers -2. -1, 0, 1, 2, what
is the probability that 𝑥 ˂ 2.

2. John, David and Peter were trying to get first chance in a game. John says
“Let us toss two coins. If both heads appear, David will take first chance.
If both tails appear, Peter will get it and if one head and one tail appear, I
will get the chance”.
(i) What is the probability of John getting the first chance?
(ii) What is the probability of David getting the first chance?
(iii) What is the probability of Peter getting the first chance?
(iv) Is his decision fair ?

3. If a number x is chosen from the numbers 1, 2, 3 and a number y is

selected from the numbers 1, 4, 9, then find P(xy˂ 9).

4. A circle with diameter 20 cm is drawn somewhere on a rectangular piece

of paper with length 40 cm and width30 cm. This paper is kept
horizontal on the table top. A die, very small in size, is dropped on the
rectangular paper without looking towards it. If the die falls and lands on
the paper only, then find the probability that it will fall and land
(i) Inside the circle
(ii) Outside the circle.
5. A missing helicopter is reported to have crashed somewhere in a
rectangular region of dimension 9 km x 4.5 km. What is the probability
that is crashed inside a lake which is square in shape of side 3 km inside
the rectangular region.

6. A bag contains 18 balls out of which x balls are red.

(i) If one ball is drawn at random, what is the probability that it is
red ball.
(ii) If 2 more red balls are put in the bag, then the probability of
drawing a red ball will be times that of probability of red ball
coming in part (i). Find the value of x.

7. A jar contains 54 marbles which are blue, green or white. The probability
of selecting a blue marble at random from the jar is , and the
probability of selecting a green marble at random is . How many white
marbles does the jar contain?
8. From a well shuffled deck of 52 cards, one card is drawn at random. Find
the probability that the card drawn is
(i) A pip card.
(ii) A card denomination 5 or 6
(iii) A card with denomination between 2 and 9.

9. From a well shuffled deck of 52 cards, few cards of same colour are
missing. If the probability of drawing a red card is and that of black
card is , then which colour of cards are missing and how many?

10. In a game, the entry fee is Rs.5. The game consists of tossing a coin 3
times. If one or two heads show, a boy gets his entry fee back. If he
throws 3 heads, he receives double the entry fees. Otherwise he will lose.
For tossing a coin three times, find the probability that he
(i) Loses the entry
(ii) Gets double entry fee
(iii) Just gets his entry fee.

PREPARED BY
D K DHAL, TGT MATH
JNV DHENKANAL.
ODISHA