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The document contains a series of probability questions covering various scenarios, such as drawing balls from a bag, rolling dice, and selecting letters from the alphabet. It includes calculations for probabilities of winning games, selecting good mobile phones, and determining the likelihood of specific outcomes in different contexts. The questions are designed to test understanding of probability concepts and calculations.

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Probability CW

The document contains a series of probability questions covering various scenarios, such as drawing balls from a bag, rolling dice, and selecting letters from the alphabet. It includes calculations for probabilities of winning games, selecting good mobile phones, and determining the likelihood of specific outcomes in different contexts. The questions are designed to test understanding of probability concepts and calculations.

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PROBABILITY

QUESTIONS
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1. Which all cannot be the probability of an event? ( 5%, 0.3, -6, 7/15, ,1 )
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2. If P(E) = , What is the probability of ‘ not E ‘ ?
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3. Probability of winning a game is 0.02. What is the probability of losing it?


4. A bag contains 3 white , 4 red and 7 black balls. A ball is drawn at random. Find
the probability that (i) it is a black ball (ii) it is a red or a black ball (iii) it is a red,
white or a black ball (iv) not a red ball (v) neither red nor black.
5. Find the probability of drawing a green coloured ball from a bag containing 6 red
and 5 black balls .
6. A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting (i) a number 3 or 4 (ii) a
number less than 5 (iii) a number greater than 5 (iv) a prime number (v) an odd
number (vi) an even prime number (vii) a number divisible by 3
7. If a letter from English alphabet is chosen at random, find the probability that the
letter is a (i) vowel (ii) a consonant
8. If a letter is chosen at random from the English alphabet, what is the probability
that it is a letter of the word ‘DELHI’.
9. One letter is chosen at random amongst the letters of the word ‘PROBABILITY’.
Find the probability that the letter chosen is a) a vowel b) a consonant
10. A bag contains cards numbered from 2 to 26 . One card is drawn from the bag at
random. Find the probability that it has a number (i) divisible by 5 ( or multiple of 5)
(ii) which is a perfect square (iii) divisible by both 2 and 3 (iv) divisible by 2
or 3 (v) a prime number.
11. A lot consists of 48 mobile phones of which 42 are good, 3 have only minor
defects and 3 have major defects. Varun will buy a phone if it is good but a trader
will buy a mobile only if it has no major defect. One phone is selected at random
from the lot. What is the probability that it is: a) acceptable to Varun b)
acceptable to the trader.
12. There are 40 students in class X of whom 25 are girls and 15 are boys. The
class teacher has to select one student as a class representative. She writes the
name of each student on a separate card. The card being identical and she puts
cards in a bag and mixes throughly. She then draws a card from the bag. What is
the probability that the name is of a) a girl b) a boy.
13. The probability of getting a bad egg from a lot of 400 eggs is 0.035. Find the
number of bad eggs in the lot.
14. A girl calculates that the probability of her winning the first prize in a lottery is
0.08. If 6000 tickets are sold, then how many tickets has she bought?
15. A lot of 20 bulbs contain 4 defective ones. One bulb is drawn at random from the
lot. What is the probability that this bulb is 1) defective 2) non defective 3) suppose
the bulb drawn in (1) is defective and is not replaced. Then one bulb is drawn at
random from the rest. What is the probability that this bulb is non defective?
16. The probability of guessing the correct answer to a certain question is p/12. If
the probability of not guessing the correct answer to the same question is ¾ . Find
the value of p.
17. A missing helicopter is reported to have crashed somewhere in the rectangular
region in the given figure. What is the probability that it is crashed inside the lake
shown in the figure?

18. From a well shuffled pack of cards, a card is drawn at random. Find the
probavility that it is a 1) spade 2) king 3) club 4) a red card 5) a black queen
6) 4 of diamond 7) a face card 8) a black face card 9) a red king 10) a red
card or a king 11) neither red nor ace. 12) a non face card 13) a black king or a
red queen.
19. All cards of Ace , Jack and Queen are removed from a deck of playing cards.
One card is drawn at random from the remaining cards. Find the probability that the
card drawn is : 1) a face card 2) not a face card
20. From a well shuffled pack of playing cards, jack , queen, kings and aces of red
colour are removed. From the remaining, a card is drawn at random. Find the
probability that the card drawn is : 1) black queen 2) a red card 3) a black jack 4)
a face card 5) not a diamond 6) 2 of spades 7) 10 of black suit
21. A coin is tossed. Find the probability of getting 1) a head 2) a tail.
22. Two coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting 1) two
heads 2 ) at least one head 3) no head.
23. Three coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting 1) two
heads 2) at least one head 3) no head 4) at most one head.
24. Two dice are thrown once. Find the probability of obtaining 1 ) same number on
both dice (doublet) 2) a total of 6 3) a total of 10
25. Arun and Amit are friends. What is the probability that both will have 1) same
birthday 2) different birthday.( ignore leap year)
26. A bag contains 5 red balls and some blue balls. If the probability of drawing a
blue ball is double that of a red ball, find the number of blue balls in the bag.
27. A jar contains 24 marbles, some are green and others are blue. If a marble is
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drawn at random from the jar, the probability that it is green is . Find the number of
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blue marbles in the bag.


28. What is the probability that an ordinary year has 53 Sundays?
29. What is the probability that a leap year has 53 Sundays?

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