FAHAHEEL AL-WATANIEH INDIAN PRIVATE SCHOOL

AHMADI-KUWAIT
Maths Assignment (Probability)
Class-X (2022-23)

Section A (Short Answer Type Questions)

1. From a well shuffled pack of cards, a card is drawn at random. Find the probability of
getting a black queen.
(Ans: 1/26 )

2. Cards bearing numbers 3 to 20 are placed in a bag and mixed thoroughly. A card is taken
out from the bag at random. What is the probability that the number on the card taken out
is an even number?
(Ans: ½)

3. If the probability of winning a game is 0.3, what is the probability of losing it.
(Ans : 0.7 )

4. The probability that it will rain tomorrow is 0.85. what is the probability that it will not
rain tomorrow?
(Ans : 0.15 )

Section B (Long Answer Type Questions)

5. One card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of drawing

i) An ace (Ans. 1/13)

ii) ‘2’ of spades. (Ans. 1/52)
iii) ‘10’ of a black suit (Ans. 1/26)

6. On tossing three coins at a time, find

i) All possible outcomes ( Ans. 8)

ii) Probability of getting 3 heads, 2 heads, 1head and no head (Ans. 1/8, 3/8, 3/8, 1/8)

7. Two friends were born in the year 2000. What is the probability that they have the same
birthday? ( Ans. 1/366 )

8. A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find the probability that
the card drawn is neither a red card nor a queen. ( Ans. 6/13 )

9. Two coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting

i) Two heads ( Ans. ¼ )

ii) At least one head ( Ans. 3/4)
iii) No head ( Ans. ¼ )

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10. Two dice are rolled once. Find the probability of getting such numbers on two dice, whose
product is a perfect square. ( Ans. 2/9 )

11. A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find the probability that
the card drawn is

i) A king or a jack ( Ans. 2/13 )

ii) A non ace ( Ans. 12/13 )
iii) A red card ( Ans. 1/2 )
iv) Neither a queen nor a king ( Ans. 11/13 )

12. A box contains 20 balls bearing numbers 1,2,3,4,……20. A ball is drawn at random from
the box. What is the probability that the number on the balls is

i) An odd number ( Ans. ½ )

ii) Divisible by 2 or 3 ( Ans. 13/20 )
iii) Prime number ( Ans. 4/5 )
iv) Not divisible by 10 ( Ans. 9/10 )

13. A ticket is drawn at random from a bag containing tickets numbered from 1 to 40. Find
the probability that the selected ticket has a number which is a multiple of 5. ( Ans. 1/5 )

14. Two dice are thrown once. Find the probability of obtaining :

i) a total of 6 ( Ans. 5/36 )

ii) a total of 10 ( Ans. 1/12 )
iii) the same number on both dice. ( Ans. 1/6 )
iv) A total more than 9 ( Ans. 1/6 )

15. Find the probability of getting 53 Fridays in a leap year. ( Ans. 2/7 )

16. A bag contains 5 red balls and some blue balls. If the probability of drawing a blue ball
from the bag is thrice that of a red ball, find the number of blue balls in the bag. ( Ans.
15 )

17. The king, queen and jack of clubs are removed from a deck 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

i) Heart ( Ans. 13/49 )

ii) Queen ( Ans. 3/49 )
iii) Clubs ( Ans. 10/49 )

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 Section C (HOTS)

18. A child’s game has 8 triangles of which 3 are blue and rest are red, and 10 squares of
which 6 are blue and rest are red. One piece is lost at random. Find the probability that it
is a i) triangle ii) square iii) square of blue color iv) triangle of red color.
( Ans. 4/9, 5/9, 1/3, 5/18 )

19. In a game, the entry fee is Rs.5. The game consists of tossing a coin 3 times. If one or two
heads show, Sweta gets her entry fee back. If she throws 3 heads, she receives double the
entry fees. Otherwise she will lose. For tossing a coin three times, find the probability that
she i) loses the entry fee ii) Gets double entry fee iii) just gets her entry fee. (
Ans. 1/8, 1/8, 3/4 )

20. The probability of guessing the correct answer to a certain test is p/12. If the probability
of not guessing the correct answer to this question is 1/3 then find the value of p.
( Ans. 8 )

Section D (Case Study)

1) Five friends and one of their mothers are having a picnic. The mother deicide to play
card game. 17 cards numbered 1, 2, 3 ... 17 are put in a box and mixed thoroughly. The
mother asks each boy to draw a card and after each draw she shows some magic tricks
based on card number.

On the basis of the above information, answer the following questions

i. What is the probability of drawing an odd number card in the first draw by the first
boy?

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ii. Now in second draw, card drawn in first draw is replaced. What is the probability of
drawing a prime number card by the second boy?

iii. If in second draw, boy got number 2 and the card is not replaced, what is the probability
of drawing a card bearing a multiple of 3 greater than 5 by the third boy?

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iv. If the card is replaced after the third draw, what is the probability of drawing a card
bearing a number greater than 17 by the fourth boy ?

v. If the card is replaced after the fourth draw, what is the probability of drawing a card
bearing a multiple of 3 or 7 by the fifth boy?

2) In two dice game, the player takes turns to roll both dice, they can roll as many times
as they want in one turn. A player scores the sum of the two dice thrown and gradually
reaches a higher score as they continue to roll. If a single number 1 is thrown on either
die, the score for that whole turn is lost. Two dice are thrown simultaneously.

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