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Probability 10th (HOTS)

The document presents a series of probability problems covering various scenarios, including weather predictions, game outcomes, and random selections from sets. Each problem requires calculating probabilities based on given conditions, such as winning chances in games, drawing cards, and selecting numbers. The problems are designed to test understanding of basic probability concepts and calculations.

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Probability 10th (HOTS)

The document presents a series of probability problems covering various scenarios, including weather predictions, game outcomes, and random selections from sets. Each problem requires calculating probabilities based on given conditions, such as winning chances in games, drawing cards, and selecting numbers. The problems are designed to test understanding of basic probability concepts and calculations.

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PROBABILITY (HOTS)

1. The probability that it will rain tomorrow is 0.85. What is the probability
that it will not rain?

2. Two players Sushmitha and Saniya play a tennis match. It is known that
probability of Sushmitha winning the match is 0.62. What is the
probability of Saniya winning?

3. Sushmitha and Saniya are friends. What is the probability that both will
have: a) different birthdays b) same birthdays (ignoring leap year)

4. Find the probability of getting 53 Fridays in a leap year.

5. A letter is chosen from English alphabets. Find the probability:


a) vowel b) consonant

6. Cards marked with numbers 5, 6, 7……. 30 are placed in a box and


mixed thoroughly and one card is drawn at random form the box. Find the
probability that the number on the card is
a) a prime number b) a multiple of 3 or 5
c) neither divisible by 5 nor by 10.

7. There are 3 children in a family. Find the probability of that there is at


most one girl in the family.

8. A number ‘x’ is selected from the numbers 1, 2, 3 and then a second


number ‘y’ is selected from the numbers 1, 4, 9. What is the probability
that the product xy of the two numbers will be less than 9?

9. Two dice are thrown at the same time. Find the probability of getting a
multiple of 3 on first and multiple of 2 on the other die.

10.Two dice are thrown at the same time. Determine the probability that the
difference of the numbers on the two dice is 2.

11.A jar contains blue and green marbles. The number of green marbles is 5
more that twice the number of blue marbles. If probability of drawing a
blue one at random is 2/7, how many blue and green marbles are there in
a jar?

12.Find the probability that a non leap year chosen at random has:
a) 52 Sundays b) 53 Sundays

13.A bag contains 24 marbles, some of which are green and others are blue.
A marble is drawn at random from the bag. If the probability is 2/3, then
find the number of the blue marbles in the bag.

14.A game of chance consists of an arrow which comes to rest, pointing at


one of the regions 1, 2, 3. O is the centre of the circle, OC ⊥ AB. Find the
probability that:
a) arrow is resting on 3.
b) arrow is resting on 1.
c) arrow is not resting on 2.

15.A girl calculated that the probability of her winning the first prize in a
lottery is 0.08. If 6000 tickets are sold, how many tickets had she bought?

16. All the red face cards are removed from a pack of 52 playing cards. A
card is drawn at random from the remaining cards, after reshuffling them.
Find the probability that the drawn card is
a) of red colour
b) a queen
c) an ace
d) a face card

17.Two different dice are tossed together. Find the probability


a) that the number on each die is even.
b) that the sum of numbers appearing on the two dice is 5.

18.A box contains cards numbered 3, 5, 7, 9…….. 35, 37. A card is drawn at
random from the box. Find the probability that the number of the drawn
card is a prime number.

19.A ticket is drawn at random from a bag containing tickets numbers from
1 to 40. Find the probability that the selected ticket has a number which is
a multiple of 5.
20.Two dice are rolled once. Find the probability of getting such numbers on
the two dice, whose product is 12.

21.A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled deck of playing cards.


Find the probability that the card drawn is
a) a card of spade or an ace.
b) a black king.
c) neither a jack nor a king.
d) either a king or a queen.
e) neither a king nor a queen.

22.A die is thrown twice, find the probability that


a) the number 6 comes at least once.
b) the number 6 comes at most once.

23.Two coins are tossed once. Find the probability of getting.


a) two heads
b) exactly one tail
c) two tails
d) sum of probabilities of above three.

24.A letter is chosen at random from the English alphabets. What is the
probability that it is a letter of the word “MATHEMATICS”.

25.A bag contains 15 white and some black balls. If the probability of
drawing a black ball is thrice that of drawing a white ball, find the
number of black balls in the bag.

26.Two different dice are thrown together. Find the probability that the
number obtained have
a) even sum
b) even product

27.The probability of selecting a rotten apple randomly from a heap of 900


apples is 0.18. What is the number of rotten apples in the heap.

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