JINGLE BELLS PUBLIC SCHOOL

ASSIGNMENT
Class – X
Subject – Mathematics (Probability)
Time : 1 Hr M.M. : 30

Directions: In the following questions, a statement of Assertion (A) is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Mark the
correct choice as:
a) Both Assertion and Reason are correct and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion.
(b) Assertion and Reason both are correct but Reason is not the correct explanation of Assertion.
(c) Assertion is correct but Reason is false
(d) Assertion is false but Reason is correct
(e) Both assertion and reason are wrong.
1. Assertion: The probability of an event that cannot happen or which is impossible is equal to zero.
Reason: The probability lies between 0 and 1. Hence, it cannot be negative
2. Assertion: If P(E) = 0.07, then its probability of ‘not E’ is 0.93
Reason: P(E) + P(not E) = 1
3. Assertion: A bag has 3 red balls and 5 green balls. If we take a ball from the bag, then probability of getting red
balls only 3/8.
Reason: Probability of getting red balls = number of red balls/total number of balls
4. Assertion: The sum of the probabilities of all the elementary events of an experiment is 1.
Reason: If an event cannot occur, then its probability is 0.
5. Assertion: The probability of getting a bad egg in a lot of 400 is 0.035. The number of bad eggs in the lot is 14.
Reason: If the probability of an event is p, the probability of its complementary event will be 1-p.
6. Assertion: The probability of getting exactly one head in tossing a pair of coins is 1/2.
Reason: The sample space of two coin tossed is ={HH,TT,HT,TH}=4
7. Assertion: The probability of getting a spade card from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards is 13.
Reason: The probability of getting less than 3 in a single throw of a die is 1/3.
8. Assertion: -0.4 cannot be the probability of an event.
Reason: The probability of an event can neither be a negative value, nor it can exceed unity.
9. Assertion: Three coins are tossed simultaneously. The probability of getting all heads is 1/8.
Reason: The chance of throwing 5 with an ordinary die is 1/6.
10. Assertion: The probability of getting a prime number when a die is thrown once is 2/3.
Reason: Prime numbers on a die are 2, 3, 5.
11. Assertion: The probability of a sure event is 1.
Reason: Let E be an event. Then 0 ≤ P (E) ≤ 1.
12. Assertion: If a box contains 5 white, 2 red and 4 black marbles, then the probability of not drawing a white
marble from the box is 5/11.
Reason: P(E) = 1 – P(E), where E is any event.
13. Assertion: If a pair of dice is thrown once, then the probability of getting a sum of 8 is 5/36.
Reason: In a simultaneous toss of two coins, the probability of getting exactly one head is 1/2.
MCQ Based Questions
14. The probability of getting exactly one head in tossing a pair of coins is
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) 1/3 (d)1/2
15. The probability of getting less than 3 in a single throw of a die is
(a)1/3 (b) ½ (c)1/4 (d) 2/3
16. The total number of events of throwing 10 coins simultaneously is
(a) 1024 (b) 512 (c) 100 (d) 10
17. Which of the following can be the probability of an event?
(a) – 0.4 (b) 1.004 (c) 18/23 (d) 10/7
18. One card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards. The probability of getting a king of red color is
(a)1/26 (b) 1/13 (c) ¼ (d) 1/2
 19. One card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. The probability of getting a non-face card is
(a)3/13 (b) 10/13 (c) 7/13 (d) 1/2
20. The chance of throwing 5 with an ordinary die is
(a)1/6 (b) 5/6 (c) 1/3 (d) ½
21. . The letters of the word SOCIETY are placed at random in a row. The probability of getting a vowel is
(a) 1/7 (b) 2/7 (c) 3/7 (d) 4/7
22. Cards bearing numbers 3 to 20 are placed in a bag and mixed thoroughly. A card is taken out from the bag at
random. The probability that the number on the card taken out is an even number, is
(a)1/20 (b) ¼ (c) 1/3 (d) ½
23. A girl calculates that the probability of her winning the first prize in a lottery is 8100. If 6,000 tickets are sold,
how many tickets has she bought?
(a) 400 (b) 750 (c) 480 (d) 240
24. A card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards. The probability of a seven of spade is
(a)1/26 (b) 1/52 (c) 3/52 (d) 1/13
25. A bag contains 3 red balls and 5 black balls. A ball is drawn at random from the bag. The probability that a red
ball drawn is
(a)1/8 (b) 1/2 (c) 5/8 (d) ¾
26. A child has a die whose six faces show the letters as given below:
A B C D E F
The die is thrown once. The probability of getting a ‘D’ is
(a)1/2 (b) 1/3 (c) 1/4 (d) 1/6
27. One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. The probability that the card will not be an ace is
(a)1/13 (b) 4/13 (c) 12/13 (d) 3/13
28. ticket is drawn at random from a bag containing tickets numbered from 1 to 40. The probability that the
selected ticket has a number which is a multiple of 5 is
(a)3/5 (b) 1/5 (c) 1/3 (d) 4/5
SOLVE THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS
29. In a family of 3 children calculate the probability of having at least one boy.
30. A letter of English alphabet is chosen at random. Determine the probability that the chosen letter is a
consonant.
31. A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled pack of 52 playing cards. Find the probability of getting neither a
red card nor a queen.
32. Cards marked with number 3, 4, 5, …, 50 are placed in a box and mixed thoroughly. A card is drawn at random
from the box. Find the probability that the selected card bears a perfect square number.
33. If two different dice are rolled together, calculate the probability of getting an even number on both dice.
34. Two different dices are tossed together. Find the probability that the product of the two numbers on the top of
the dice is 6.
35. A coin is tossed two times. Find the probability of getting either heads or both tails.
36. Three coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting exactly two heads.
37. A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled pack of 52 playing cards. Find the probability that the drawn card
is neither a jack nor an ace.
38. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability of getting a double.
39. Two different dice are tossed together. Find the probability.
(i) That the number on each die is even.
(ii) That the sum of numbers appearing on the two dice is 5.
40. A coin is tossed two times. Find the probability of getting at least one head.
41. 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. (iii) at most 2 heads.
42. 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.
43. The probability of selecting a red ball at random from a jar that contains only red, blue and orange balls is 1/4.
The probability of selecting a blue ball at random from the same jar is 1/3. If the jar contains 10 orange balls,
find the total number of balls in the jar.
44. All red face cards are removed from a pack of playing cards. The remaining cards were well shuffled and then a
card is drawn at random from them. Find the probability that the drawn card is
(i) a red card (ii) a face card (iii) a card of clubs.
45. Two different dice are thrown together. Find the probability of:
(i) getting a number greater than 3 on each die
(ii) Getting a total of 6 or 7 of the numbers on two dice
46. Two different dice are thrown together. Find the probability that the numbers obtained.
(i) have a sum less than 6 (ii) have a product less than 16 (iii) is a doublet of odd numbers.
47. A survey has been done on 100 people out of which 20 use bicycles, 50 use motorbikes and 30 use cars to travel
from one place to another. Find the probability of persons who use bicycles, motorbikes and cars respectively?
48. A group consists of 12 persons, of which 3 are extremely patient, other 6 are extremely honest and rest are
extremely kind. A person from the group is selected at random. Assuming that each person is equally likely to be
selected, find the probability of selecting a person who is
(i) Extremely patient (ii) extremely kind or honest.
49. Find the probability that a leap year selected at random, will contain 53 Mondays.
50. A bag contains cards numbered from 1 to 49. A card is drawn from the bag at random, after mixing the cards
thoroughly. Find the probability that the number on the drawn card is:
(i) an odd number (ii) a multiple of 5 (iii) a perfect square (iv) an even prime number
51. 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.
52. The probability of guessing the correct answer to a certain question is x/12. If the probability of guessing the
wrong answer is 3/4, find x. If a student copies the answer, then its probability is 2/6. If he doesn’t copy the
answer, then the probability is 2y/3. Find the value of y.