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Maths Exercise

The document contains probability problems involving dice, coins, balls drawn from bags, and other scenarios. It asks the probability of various outcomes occurring when rolling dice, flipping coins, randomly selecting balls or cards, and other random events. There are over a dozen multi-part probability questions covered.

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Maths Exercise

The document contains probability problems involving dice, coins, balls drawn from bags, and other scenarios. It asks the probability of various outcomes occurring when rolling dice, flipping coins, randomly selecting balls or cards, and other random events. There are over a dozen multi-part probability questions covered.

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Exercise

1. What is the probability of rolling an odd number on a dice?


2. What is the probability of rolling a number greater than 4 on a dice?
3. Find the probability of getting a sum of 5 or 7 in toss of two dice.
4. When two dice are thrown what is the probability that the sum of numbers
appeared on them would be less than 5?
5. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers on the two faces is
divisible by 4 when two dice are thrown together?
6. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers on the two faces is
divisible by 7 when two dice are thrown together?
7. What is the probability of getting a sum of 14 when two dice are thrown
simultaneously?
8. A die is rolled. If the outcome is an odd number, what is the probability that
it is prime?
9. What is the probability that the sum of the numbers on the two faces is
divisible by 6 when two dice are thrown together?
10.What is the probability that the sum of the numbers on the two faces is
divisible by 5 when two dice are thrown together?
11.What is the probability of getting a sum less than 9, when two dice are
thrown simultaneously?
12.If a fair coin is tossed three times, then find
A) The probability of a tail not showing at all is
B) The probability of exactly two heads is
C) The probability of at least one head is
D) The probability of exactly one head is
13.A bag contains 3 white and 4 black balls. If two balls are drawn at random,
then find the probability that one of them is white and the other is black.
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14.From a box which contains five black pens and three red pens what is the
probability to draw at least two black pens if three pens are drawn at
random?
15.A and B are events such that ( ) ( ) ( )
Then find ( ).
16.Consider the example of finding the probability of selecting a black card or
a 6 from a deck of 52 cards. What is the probability of selecting a black card
and a number 6? A) B) C) D) E)

17.If four persons are chosen randomly from a group of 10 persons of which six
are male, to form a committee then find
a) the probability that the committee consists of all female
b) the probability that the committee consists of all male
c) the probability that the committee consists of equal number of each sex
d) the probability that the committee consists of at least three male
18.If two dice are thrown then,
A) What is the probability that the sum of numbers appearing on the upper
face of the dice is 7?
B) What is the probability to see even number on the upper face of both
dice?
C) What is the Probability to see a number less than 3 on the upper face of
both dice?
D) What is the Probability to see a number greater than on the upper face of
both dice?
Exercise
1. If ( ) ( ) and ( ) , thenfind ( ).

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2. You are given that A and B are two events such that ( ) , ( )

and ( ) then, find P(A).

3. Determine the probability of 3 of 5 born children being sons if the probability


of a children to be a boy equals P(A) = 0,51.
4. There are 18 tickets marked with numbers 1 to 18. What‘s the probability of
selecting a ticket having the following property:
a. even number c) number divisible by 3 d) prime number
b. number divisible by 6
5. Suppose that the chance that a student earns a grade ‘’A’’ in mathematics
course is 40% and the chance that the student is assigned an ‘’A’’ in
engineering is 70%. If these events are independent, then find the following
i. The probability that the student receive an ‘’A’’ in both math and
engineering.
ii. The probability that the student receive an ‘’A’’ in neither.
iii. The probability that the student receives exactly one A.
6. A bag contains 30 balls numbered from 1 to 30.One ball is drawn at random.
Find the probability that the number of the ball drawn will be a multiple of
a) 5 or 7 b) 3 or 7

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