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PROBABILITY - SHEET: 2

Mutually exclusive, exhaustive, Independent events, P(A  B).

LEVEL - I

1. Two dice are thrown. The events A, B and C are as follows:

A: getting an even number on the first die.
B: getting an odd number on the first die.
C: getting the sum of the numbers on the dice  5
Describe the events
(i) A (ii) not B (iii) A or B (iv) A and B
(v) A but not C (vi) B or C (vii) B and C

2. Three coins are tossed once. Find the probability of getting

(i) 3 heads (ii) 2 heads (iii) atleast 2 heads (iv) atmost 2 heads
(v) no head (vi) 3 tails (vii) exactly two tails (viii) no tail
(ix) atmost two tails

3. A and B are two events such that P A   0.54 , P B   0.69 and P A  B   0.35 . Find
(i) P A  B  (ii) P A   B  (iii) P A  B  (iv) P B  A 

4 i) Two dice are thrown and the sum of the numbers which come up on the dice is noted. Let us consider the
following events associated with this experiment
A : ‘the sum is even’
B: ‘the sum is a multiple 3’.
C: ‘the sum is less than 4’.
D: ‘the sum is greater than 11’.
Which pairs of these events are mutually exclusive?
ii) A coin is tossed three times, consider the following events.
A: ‘No head appears’, B: ‘Exactly one head appears’ and C: ‘Atleast two heads appear’.
Do they form a set of mutually exclusive and exhaustive events?

5. Three coins are tossed together. What is the probability that first shows head, second shows tail and third
shows head?
6. One digit is selected from first 20 positive integers. What is the probability that it is divisible by 3 or 4.
7. If two cards are drawn from a pack of cards then find the probability of getting at least one ace.
8. A problem of mathematic is given to three students A, B and C. Whose chances of solving it are 1/2, 1/3, 1/4
respectively. Then find the probability that the problem is solved?
9. A can solve 75 % of the problems of a book and B can solve 60 % of the problems of the same book. Then
find the probability that at least one can solve a problem of the book chosen at random?
10 Let A, B, C be 3 independent events such that P(A) = 1/3, P(B) =1/2 , P(C) =1/4. Then find probability of
exactly 2 events occuring out of 3 events.

LEVEL - II
1. Check whether the following probabilities P(A) and P(B) are consistently defined
(i) P(A) = 0.5, P(B) = 0.7, P(A  B) = 0.6
(ii) P(A) = 0.5, P(B) = 0.4, P(A  B) = 0.8

2. Which of the following can not be valid assignment of probabilities for outcomes of sample Space S = {1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6, 7}
Assignment 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
(a) 0.1 0.01 0.05 0.03 0.01 0.2 0.6
(b) 1/7 1/7 1/7 1/7 1/7 1/7 1/7
(c) 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7
(d) –0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 –0.2 0.1 0.3
(e) 1/14 2/14 3/14 4/14 5/14 6/14 15/14

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3. A letter is chosen at random from the word ‘ASSASSINATION’. Find the probability that letter is (i) a vowel (ii)
a consonant.
4 3
4. The probability that A speaks truth is , while this for B is , the probability that they contradict each other
5 4
when asked to speak on a fact.

5. A card is drawn randomly from a pack of playing cards then find the probability by two different approaches to
verify your answer that it is neither ace nor king.

6. A bag contains 9 discs of which 4 are red, 3 are blue and 2 are yellow. The discs are similar in shape and size.
A disc is drawn at random from the bag. Calculate the probability that it will be (i) red, (ii) yellow, (iii) blue, (iv)
not blue, (v) either red or blue.

7. A fair coin with 1 marked on one face and 6 on the other and a fair die are both tossed, find the probability that
the sum of numbers that turn up is (i) 3 (ii) 12.

8. A fair coin is tossed four times, and a person win Re 1 for each head and lose Rs. 1.50 for each tail that turns
up.
From the sample space calculate how many different amounts of money you can have after four tosses and
the probability of having each of these amounts.

9. In an entrance test, that is graded on the basis of two examinations, the probability of a randomly chosen
student passing the first examination is 0.8 and the probability of passing the second examination is 0.7. The
probability of passing at least one of them is 0.95. What is the probability of passing both?

1 2 3
10. The probability of A, B, C solving a problem are , , respectively. If all the three try to solve the problem
3 7 8
simultaneously, the probability that exactly one of them will solve it

11. Two students Anil and Ashima appeared in an examination. The probability that Anil will qualify the
examination is 0.05 and that Ashima will qualify the examination is 0.10. The probability that both will qualify
the examination is 0.02. Find the probability that
a) Both Anil and Ashima will not qualify the examination
b) Atleast one of them will not qualify the examination and
c) Only one of them will qualify the examination

12. In a lottery, a person chooses six different natural numbers at random from 1 to 20, and if these six numbers
match with the six numbers already fixed by the lottery committee, he wins the prize. What is the probability of
winning the prize in the game?
3
13. The probability that a student will pass in Mathematics is and the probability that he will pass in English is
5
1 1
. If the probability that he will pass in both Mathematics and English is , what is the probability that he will
3 8
pass in at least one subject?

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ANSWER SHEET – 2 PROBABILITY

LEVEL – I
1. (i) A = {(1, 1), (1, 2), … (1, 6), (3, 1), (3, 2), … (3, 6), (5, 1), (5, 2), …. (5, 6)}
(ii) B = {(2, 1), (2, 2), … (2, 6), (4, 1), (4, 2), … (4, 6), (6, 1), (6, 2), … (6, 6)
(iii) A  B = {(1, 1), (1, 2), … (1, 6), (2, 1), (2, 2), … (2, 6), (3, 1), (3, 2), … (3, 6), (4, 1), (4, 2)… (4, 6)
(5, 1), (5, 2) … (5, 6), (6, 1), (6, 2), … (6, 6)
(iv) A  B = 
(v) A – C = {(2, 4), (2, 5), (2, 6), (4, 2), (4, 3), (4, 4), (4, 5), (4, 6), (6, 1), (6, 2), (6, 3), (6, 4), (6, 5), (6, 6)}
(vi) B  C = {(1, 1) --- (1, 6), (2, 1)} --- (2, 6), (3, 1) --- (3, 6), (4, 1), (5, 1) --- (5, 6)}
(vii) B  C = {(1, 1), (1, 2), (1, 3)}, (1, 4), (3, 1), (3, 2)}
2. (i) 1/8 (ii) 3/8 (iii) 1/2 (iv) 7/8
(v) 1/8 (vi) 1/8 (vii) 3/8 (viii) 1/8
(ix) 7/8
3. (i) 0.88 (ii) 0.12 (iii) 0.19 (iv) 0.34
4 i). A and D (ii). Yes
5 6/35
6. 1/2
7. 99/663
8. 3/4
9. 9/10
10. ¼

LEVEL – II
1. (i) No (ii) Yes
2. (a) Yes
(b) Yes
(c) No
(d) No
(e) No
3. (i) 6/13 (ii) 7/13
7
4.
20
11
5.
13
6. (i) 4/9
(ii) 2/9
(iii) 1/3
(iv) 2/3
(v) 7/9
7. (i) 1/12 (ii) 1/12
8. +4, P = 1/16, +1.5, P = 1/4, –1, P = 3/8, –3.5, P = 1/4, –6, P = 1/16
9 0.55
25
10.
56
11. (a) 0.87 (b) 0.98 (c) 0.11
1
12.
38760
97
13.
120
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