ARMY PUBLIC SCHOOL, JHANSI

PROBABILITY
CLASS 10 - MATHEMATICS

Section A a) 1
2 b) 1
6
c) 2
3 d) 1
3

12) A bag contains 3 red, 5 black and 7 white balls. A ball is

1) A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting a
drawn from the bag at random. The probability that the ball
number less than 7.
drawn is not black, is:
[1]
[1]
a) 61 b) 0
a) 10
5
b) 23
c) 56 d) 1
c) 3
1
d) 15
9

2) In a group of 20 people, 5 can’t swim. If one person is

13) A die is thrown once. The probability of getting an odd
selected at random, then the probability that he/she can swim,
number greater than 3 is
is
[1]
[1] a) 13 b) 16
a) 34 b) 1
c) 0 d) 12
c) 14 d) 13
14) If an event cannot occur then its probability is
3) If a digit is chosen at random from the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
[1]
6, 7, 8, 9, then the probability that it is even, is a) 34 b) 12
[1] c) 0 d) 1
a) 91 b) 23
c) 95 d) 49 15) The king, queen and jack of clubs are removed from a deck
of 52 cards and the remaining cards are shuffled. A card is
4) If a two digit number is chosen at random, then the proba- drawn from the remaining cards. The probability of getting
bility that the number chosen is a multiple of 3, is a king is
[1] [1]
a) 10
3
b) 100
29
a) 52
4
b) 52
3
c) 25 d) 3
7 1
c) 49 d) 49
3 4

5) The probability that a non - leap year has 53 Sundays, is 16) Assertion (A): If the probability of an event is P then the
[1] probability of its complimentary event will be 1 - P.
a) 17 b) 27
Reason (R): When E and Ē are complimentary events, then
c) 76 d) 57
P(E) + P (Ē) = 1.
6) In a lottery, there are 6 prizes and 24 blanks. What is the [1]
probability of not getting a prize?
a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation
[1]
of A.
a) None of these b) 34
b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct expla-
c) 35 d) 45
nation of A.
7) If a digit is chosen at random from the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, c) A is true but R is false.
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, then the probability that it is odd and is a d) A is false but R is true.
multiple of 3 is
17) Assertion (A): The probability of getting a prime number,
[1]
a) 19 b) 29 when a die is thrown once, is 23 .
c) 32 d) 13 Reason (R): On the faces of a die, prime numbers are 2, 3,
5.
8) An unbiased die is thrown once. The probability of getting [1]
a number between 2 and 6 is
[1] a) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation
a) 21 b) 25 of A.
c) 31 d) 23 b) Both A and R are true but R is not the correct expla-
nation of A.
9) A card is selected at random from a well shuffled deck of c) A is true but R is false.
52 playing cards. The probability of its being a face card is d) A is false but R is true.
[1]
a) 26
3
b) 13
3
Section B
c) 26 d) 13
1 4

18) A lot of 50 pens contains 10 defective pens. A pen is drawn

10) In a lottery, there are 5 prizes and 20 blanks. The probability
at random from the lot. Find the probability of having a
of getting a prize is:
good pen.
[1]
[2]
a) 25
1
b) 14
19) A bag contains some balls of which x are white, 2x are
c) 5
1
d) 201
black and 3x are red. A ball is selected at random. What
11) A die is thrown once. The probability of getting an odd is the probability that it is
prime number is i. Not red
[1] ii. White?
 [2] i. Heart
20) A card is drawn from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. ii. Queen
Find the probability that the card is neither a red card nor a iii. Clubs.
queen. [3]
[2] 34) A game consists of tossing a one - rupee coin three times
21) A bag contains 5 black, 7 red and 3 white balls. A ball is and noting its outcome each time. Find the probability of
drawn from the bag at random. Find the probability that the getting :
ball drawn is: i. Three heads,
i. Red ii. At least two tails.
ii. Black or white [3]
iii. Not black 35) All the jacks, queens and kings are removed from a deck
[2] of 52 playing cards. The remaining cards are well shuffled
22) There are 35 students in a class of whom 20 are boys and and then one card is drawn at random. Giving ace a value
15 are girls. From these students one is chosen at random. 1, similar value for other cards, find the probability that the
What is the probability that the chosen student is a (i) boy, card has a value
(ii) girl? i. 7
[2] ii. Greater than 7
23) In a simultaneous throw of a pair of dice, find the probability [3]
of getting 5 as the sum. 36) Cards numbered 11 to 60 are kept in a box. If a card is
[2] drawn at random from the box, find the probability that the
24) A lot consist of 144 ball pens of which 20 are defective and number on the drawn card is (i) an odd number, (ii) a perfect
others are good. Nuri will buy a pen if it is good, but will square number, (iii) divisible by 5, (iv) a prime number less
not buy if it is defective. The shopkeeper draws one pen at than 20.
random and gives it to her. What is the probability that: [3]
i. She will buy it? 37) A piggy bank contains hundred 50 paise coins, fifty |1 coins,
ii. She will not buy it? twenty |2 coins and ten |5 coins. If it is equally likely that
[2] one of the coins will fall out when the bank is turned upside
25) A bag contains 15 white and some black balls. If the prob- down, find the probability that the coin which fell
ability of drawing a black ball from the bag is thrice that of i. Will be a 50 paise win
drawing a white ball find the number of black balls in the ii. Will be of value more than |1
bag. iii. Will be of value less than |5
[2] iv. Will be a Rs.1 or |2 coin
26) In a musical chair game, the person playing the music has [3]
been advised to stop playing the music at any time within 38) A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow which is
2 minutes after she starts playing. What is the probability equally likely to come to rest pointing to one of the numbers
that the music will stop within the first half - minute after 1,2,3,..., 12 as shown in the figure. What is the probability
starting? that it will point to
[2]
27) A card is drawn at random from a well - shuffled deck of
52 playing cards. What is the probability of getting a black
king?
[2] i. 6
28) Two different dice are thrown at the same time. Find the ii. An even number?
probability that the sum of the two numbers appearing on iii. A prime number?
the top of the dice is 7. iv. A number which is a multiple of 5?
[2] [3]
29) A game consists of tossing a coin 3 times and noting the 39) 5 cards the ten, jack, queen, king and ace of diamonds are
outcome each time. If getting the same result in all the well shuffled with their faces downward. One card is then
tosses is a success, find the probability of losing the game. picked up at random.
[2] i. What is the probability that the drawn card is the queen?
30) Two dice are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of ii. If the queen is drawn and put aside and a second card
getting: is drawn, find the probability that the second card is (i)
i. An even number on both dice. an ace, (ii) a queen.
ii. The sum of two numbers more than 9. [3]
[2] 40) Two dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability of
31) A die is thrown. Find the probability of getting 2 or 4? getting
[2] i. An even number as the sum.
32) A die is rolled once. Find the probability of getting: ii. The sum as a prime number.
i. An even prime number iii. A total of at least 10
ii. A number greater than 4 iv. A doublet.
iii. An odd number [3]
[2] 41) A square of side 5 cm is drawn in the interior of another
square of side 10 cm and shaded as shown in the figure .
Section C A point is selected at random from the interior of square
ABCD . What is the probability that the point will be chosen
33) The king, queen and jack of clubs are removed from a deck
from the shaded part ?
of 52 playing cards and the remaining cards are shuffled. A
card is drawn from the remaining cards. Find the probability
of getting a card of
 makes use of computers for information transmission. At an
elementary school level, computer applications can be used
to display multimedia lesson plans. A survey was done on
1000 elementary and secondary schools of Assam and they
were classified by the number of computers they had.
[3]
42) Three different coins are tossed together. Find the probability
of getting
i. Exactly two heads
ii. Atleast two heads
iii. Atleast two tails
[3] Number 1 - 11 - 21 - 51 - 101
43) A box contains 100 cards marked from 1 to 100. If one of 10 20 50 100 and
card is drawn at random from the box, find the probability Com- more
that it bears : puters
i. A single digit number Number 250 200 290 180 80
ii. A number which is a perfect square of
iii. A number which is divisible by 7 Schools
[3]
44) Three unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the One school is chosen at random. Then: [4]
probability of getting (i) exactly 2 heads, (ii) at least 2 (a) Find the probability that the school chosen at random
heads, (iii) at most 2 heads. has more than 100 computers.
[3]
45) There are 100 cards in a bag on which numbers from 1 to (b) Find the probability that the school chosen at random
100 are written. A card is taken out from the bag at random. has 50 or fewer computers.
Find the probability that the number on the selected card (c) Find the probability that the school chosen at random
i. Is divisible by 9 and is a perfect square. has no more than 20 computers.
ii. Is a prime number greater than 80.
(d) Find the probability that the school chosen at random
[3]
has 10 or less than 10 computers.
46) 17 cards numbered 1, 2, 3, ..., 17 are put in a box and
mixed thoroughly. One person draws a card from the box. 50) Read the text carefully and answer the questions: Some stu-
Find the probability that the number on the card is dents were asked to list their favourite colour. The measure
i. Odd of each colour is shown by the central angle of a pie chart
ii. A prime given below:
iii. Divisible by 3
iv. Divisible by 3 and 2 both
[3]
47) A die is thrown once. What is the probability that it shows
i. A ’3’,
ii. A ’5’,
iii. An odd number
iv. A number greater than 4?
[3]
48) Cards numbered 1 to 30 are put in a bag. A card is drawn [4]
at random from the bag. Find the probability of getting a
card bearing (a) If a student is chosen at random, then find the probability
i. Not divisible by 3 of his/her favourite colour being white?
ii. A prime number greater than 7 (b) What is the probability of his/her favourite colour being
iii. Not a perfect square number. blue or green?
[3]
(c) If 15 students liked the colour yellow, how many stu-
Section D dents participated in the survey?
49) Read the text carefully and answer the questions: Computer - (d) What is the probability of the favourite colour being red
based learning (CBL) refers to any teaching methodology that or blue?