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    Questions on Chapter Probability

    1. The probability of selecting a rotten apple from a heap of 900 apples is 0.18.What is the
    number of rotten apples in the heap?
    2. A jar contains some blue and black marbles along with 11 green marbles. The probability
    of selecting randomly a blue marble is 1/5 and black marble from the same jar is
    1/4.Find the total number of marbles in the jar.
    3. A bag contains 18 balls,out of which ‘x’ balls are red:
    (i) If a ball is drawn at random from the bag, What is the probability that it is not
    red
    (ii) If 2 more red balls are put into the bag , the probability of drawing a red ball will
    be 9/8 times of the probability of getting red ball before adding red balls. Find
    the value of ‘x’
    4. A number is selected at random from first 50 natural numbers. Find the probability that
    it is a multiple of 3 and 4
    5. Find the probability of a non-leap year having 53 Mondays
    6. Find the probability of a leap year having 53 Mondays
    7. Cards numbered from 11 to 60 are kept in a box. If a card is drawn at random from the
    box, find the probability that the number on the drawn card is:
    (i) An odd number (iii) divisible by 5
    (ii) A perfect square (iv) a prime number less than 20
    8. If a number ‘x’ is chosen at random from the numbers: -2,-1,0, 1, 2. What is the
    probability that x2 < 2 ?
    9. A letter is chosen at random from the letters of the word “ASSASSINATION”. Find the
    probability that the letter chosen is a
    (i) Vowel (ii) Consonant
    10. Two customers are visiting a particular shop in the same week (Monday to
    Saturday).Each is equally likely to visit the shop on any as on another. What is the
    probability that both will visit the shop on:
    (i) The same day (ii) different days (iii) consecutive days
    11. Apoorv throws 2 dice once and computes the product of the numbers appearing on the
    dice. Puneet throws one dice and squares the number that appears on it. Who has the
    better chance of getting the number 36?
    12. Choose the correct options:-
    a) If P(A) denotes the probability of an event A, then
    (i) P(A)<0
    (ii) P(A)>1
    (iii) 0<=P(A)<=1
    (iv) 0<P(A)<1
    b) A girl calculates that the probability of her winning the first prize in a lottery is 0.08.If
    6000 tickets are sold, how many tickets has she bought?
    (i) 40 (ii) 240 (iii) 480 (iv) 750
    c) An event is very unlikely to happen. It’s probability is closest to:
    (i) 0.0001 (ii) 0.001 (iii) 0.01 (iv)0.1
    13. Find the probability that the month of January may have 5 Mondays in:
    (i) A leap year (ii) a non-leap year
    14. Find the probability that the month of February may have 5 Wednesdays in:
    (i) A leap year (ii) a non-leap year
    15. The King, queen and jack of clubs are removed from the deck of 52 playing cards and
    shuffled. A card is drawn randomly from the remaining cards. Find the probability of
    getting:
    (i) A heart (ii) a queen (iii) a club (iv) 9 of red colour
    16. A dice is thrown once, Find the probability of getting :
    (i) A prime number (ii) a number divisible by 2 (iii) a composite
    number
    17. In a family of 3 children, find the probability of having having at least one boy

    Answers:
    1) 162
    2) 20
    3) (i) 18-x/18 (ii) x=8
    4) 2/25
    5) 1/7
    6) 2/7
    7) (i) 1/2 (ii) 2/25 (iii) 1/5 (iv) 2/25
    8) 3/5
    9) (i) 6/13 (ii) 7/13
    10) (i) 1/6 (ii) 5/6 (iii) 5/18
    11) Prob of Apoorv getting 36 is 1/36, prob of Puneet getting 36 is1/6 :Puneet has a better
    chance
    12) a) iii b) iii c) i
    13) (i) 3/7 (ii) 3/7
    14) (i) 1/7 (ii) 0
    15) (i) 13/49 (ii) 3/49 (iii) 10/49 (iv) 2/49
    16) (i) 1/2 (ii) 1/2 (iii) 1/3
    17) 7/8

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