CHAPTER 15-PROBABILITY

1) Find the probability of getting a doublet in a throw of a pair of dice

2) Find the probability of getting a black queen when a card is drawn at random from a well-
shuffled pack of 52 cards.
3) A letter of English alphabet is chosen at random. What is the probability that the chosen letter is
consonant.
4) A die is thrown once. What is the probability of getting a number less than 3?
5) If the probability of winning a game is 0.07, what is the probability of losing it?
6) A die thrown once. What is the probability of getting an even prime number?
7) If a number x is chosen at random from the numbers -3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3, then find the probability of
x2<4.
8) What is the probability that a randomly taken leap year has not 53 Sundays?
9) A die is thrown once. What is the probability of getting a prime number?
10) A number is chosen at random from numbers -5,-4,-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3,4,5. Then find the probability
that square of this number is less than or equal to 1.
11) 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?
12) A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting “atmost 2”.
13) Out of 200 bulbs in a box, 12 bulbs are defective. One bulb is taken out at random from the box.
What is the probability that the drawn bulb is not defective?
14) What is the probability that a non-leap year has 53 Mondays?
15) Two different dice are tossed together. Find the probability that the product of the number on the
top of the dice is 6.
16) A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow which comes to rest pointing at one of the
numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and these are equally likely outcomes. Find the probability that the arrow
will point at any factor of 8?
17) If a number x is chosen at random from the number -3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3. What is the probability that x2
≤4?
18) A child has a die whose six faces show the letters as shown below: A,A,B,C,C,C. The die is
thrown once. What is the probability of getting (i) A, (ii)C?
19) A game consists of tossing a coin 3 times and noting the outcome each time, if getting the same
result in all the tosses is s success, find the probability of losing the game.
20) A dice is thrown twice. Find the probability that (i) 5 will come up at least once. (ii) 5 will not
come up either time.
21) The probability of selecting a blue marble at random from a jar that contains only blue, black and
green marbles is 1/5. The probability of selecting a black marbles at random from the same jar is
¼. If the jar contains 11 green marbles, find the total number of marbles in the jar.
22) A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting (i) a composite number, (ii) a prime
number.
23) Cards numbered 7 to 40 were put in a box. Poonam selects a card at random. What is the
probability that Poonam selects a card which is a multiple of 7?
24) An integer is chosen at random between 1 and 100. Find the probability that it is: (i) divisible by
8. (ii) not divisible by 8.
25) A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of getting
neither a red card nor a queen.
26) Two dice are throw at the same time and the product of numbers appearing on them is noted.
Find the probability that the product is a prime number.
27) Two different dice are thrown together. Find the probability that the product of the number
appeared is less than 18.
28) A letter of English alphabet is chosen at random, find the probability that the letter so chosen is:
(i) a vowel (ii) a consonant.
29) A bag contains cards with numbers written on it from 1-80. A card is pulled out at random. Find
the probability that the cared shows a perfect square.
30) An integer is chosen between 70 and 100. Find the probability that it is. (i) a prime number. (ii)
divisible by 7.
31) From all the two digit numbers a number is chosen at random. Find the probability that the
chosen number is a multiple of 7.
32) A box contains cards, number 1 to 90. A card is drawn at random from the box. Find the
probability that the selected card bears a: (i) Two digit number. (ii) Perfect square number.
33) Two different dice are thrown together. Find te probability that the number obtained. (i) have a
sum less than 7. (ii) have a product less than 16. (iii) is a doublet of odd numbers.
34) Peter throws two different dice together and finds the product of the two numbers obtained. Rina
throws a die and squares the number obtained. Who has the better chance to get the number 25.
35) A bag contains 15 white and some black balls. If the probability of drawing a black ball from the
bag is thrice that of drawing a white ball, find the number of black balls in the bag.
36) In a single throw of a pair of different dice, what is the probability of getting (i) a prime number
on each dice? (ii) a total of 9 or 11?
37) Two different dice are thrown together. Find the probability of: (i) Getting a number greater than
3 on each dice. (ii) getting a total of 6 or 7 of the numbers on two dice.
38) A box consists of 100 shirts of which 88 are good, 8 have minor defects and 4 have major defects.
Ramesh, a shopkeeper will buy only those shirts which are good but ‘kewal’ another shopkeeper
will not buy shirts with major defects. A shirt is taken out of the box at random. What is the
probability that: (i) Ramesh will buy the selected shirt? (ii) ‘kewal’ will buy the selected shirt?
39) Three different coins are tossed together. Find the probability of getting (i) exactly two heads.
(ii) at least two heads. (iii) at least two tails.
40) A game consists of tossing a one-rupee coin 3 times and noting the outcome each time. Ramesh
will win the game if all the tosses show the same result, (i.e) either all three heads or all three
tails) and losses the game otherwise. Find the probability that Ramesh will lose the game.
41) One card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of getting (a) non
face card, (b) Black king or a red queen, (c) spade card.
42) From a pack of 52 playing cards, jacks, queens and kings of red colout are removed. From the
remaining a card is drawn at random. Find the probability that drawn card is : (i) a black king
(ii) a card of red colour (iii) a card of black colour.
43) A bag contains 18 balls out of which x balls are red. (i) If one ball is drawn at ranbom from the
bag, what is the probability that it is not red? (ii) If 2 more red balls are put in the bag, the
probability of drawing a red ball will be 9/8 times the probability of drawing a red ball in the first
case. Find the value of x.
44) The king, queen and jack of clubs are removed from a pack of 52 cards and then the remaining
cards are well shuffled. A card is selected from the remaining cards. Find the probability of
getting a card. (i) of spade (ii)of black king (iii) of club (iv) of jacks
45) A box contains cards numbered from 1 to 20. A card is drawn at random from the box. Find the
probability that number on the drawn card is (i) a prime number (ii) a composite number (iii) a
number divisible by 3.
46) Two different dice are rolled together once. Find the probability of numbers coming on the tops
whose product is a perfect square.
47) A box contains 125 shirts of which 110 are good 12 have minor defects and 3 have major defects
Ram Lal will buy only those shirts which are good while Naveen will reject only those which
have major defects. A shirt is taken out ar random from the box. Find the probability that: (i)
Ram Lal will buy it. (ii) Naveen will buy it.
48) The king, queen and jack of clubs are removed from a deck of 52 cards. The remaining cards are
mixed together and then a card is drawn at random from it. Find the probability of getting (i)a
face card, (ii) a card of heart, (iii) a card of clubs (iv) a queen of diamond.
49) A box contains 90 dics which are numbered 1 to 90. If one disc is drawn at random from the box,
find the probability that it bears (i) a two digit number, (ii) number divisible by 5.
50) From a deck of 52 playing cards, Jacks and kings of red colour and Queen and Aces of black
colour are removed. The remaining cards are mixed and a card is drawn at random. Find the
probability that the drawn card is: (i) A black Queen, (ii) A card of red colour. (iii) A jack of
black colour. (iv) a face card.
51) Cards on which numbers 1,2,3…. 100 are written (one number on one card and no number is
repeated) and put in a bag and are mixed thoroughly. A card is drawn at random from the bag.
Find the probability that card taken out has. (i) An even number (ii) A number which is a
multiple of 13. (iii) A perfect square number (iv) A prime number less than 20.
52) In fig., a disc on which a player spins an arrow twice. The fraction a/b is formed, where ‘a’ is
the number of sector on which arrow stops on the first spin and ‘b’ is the number of the sector in
which the arrow stops on second spin, On each spin, each sector has equal chance of selection by
the arrow. Find the probability that the fraction (a/b )>1.
53) A number ‘x’is selected at random from the numbers 1,2,3 and 4. Another number y is selected at
random from the numbers 1,4,9 and 16. Find the probability that product of x and y is less than
16.
54) A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled deck of playing cards. Find the probability that
the card drawn is : (i) a card of spade or an ace (ii) a black king (iii) neither a jack nor a king
(iv) either a king or a queen.
55) A bag contains 15 balls of which x are blue and the remaining are red. If the ;number of red balls
are increased cy 5, the probability of drawing the red balls doubles. Find (i) P(red ball) (ii) P
( blue ball) (iii) P ( blue ball if of 5 extra red balls are actually added).