PS QP ICSE X Math 25. Probability (1)
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Practice sheet
Std: X Chapter:25 Probability
Subject: Mathematics
Q 1. A die is thrown once. What is the probability that the score is a factor of 6?
Q 2. The probability of winning a game is 0.45, what is the probability of losing the game.
Q 3. In a cricket match a batsman hits a boundary 6 times out of 30 balls he plays. Find the
probability that he did not hit the boundary?
Q 4. Find the probability that there are 53 Mondays in a
a. Leap year b. non-leap year
Q 5. In a lottery of 50 tickets numbered 1 to 50, one ticket is drawn. Find the probability
that the drawn ticket bears a prime number.
Q 6.
From the letters of the word MATHEMATICS, a letter is chosen randomly. What is the
probability that it is a
a. Vowel b. consonant c. M or T
A bag contains 3 red balls, 4 blue balls, and 9 green balls. Mary draws 1 ball out of the
Q 7. bag. What is the probability that she gets a green ball or a blue ball?
What is the probability of choosing a green marble from a jar containing 5 red, 6 green
Q 8. and 4 blue marbles?
Q 9. Ramesh draws a card out of a deck of 52 cards. What is the probability that he draws a
7, a Queen, or a spade?
Q 10. Identical cards are marked 1 to 100. When a card is drawn at random, what is the
probability that it is
a. A multiple of 11
b. A perfect square
c. A number in which one digit is twice the other
d. A multiple of 2 and 3
e. A prime number containing the digit 9
Q 11. A box contains some black balls and 30 white balls. If the probability of drawing a
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black ball is two-fifth of a white ball, then find the number of black balls in the box.
Q 12. In a class of 40 students, there are 16 boys and rest are girls. If one student is selected
at random, what is the probability that the selected student is a girl?
Q 13. Out of 600 electric bulbs in a box, there are 12 defective bulbs. One bulb is taken out at
random, what is the probability that the bulb is non-defective?
Q 14. Two coins are tossed. Find the probability of getting:
a. both heads b. at least one tail
Q 15. All the three face cards of spades are removed from a well-shuffled pack of 52 cards. A
card is drawn at random from the remaining pack. Find the probability of getting
a. A black face card b. A queen c. A black card d. A spade
Q 16. 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.
Q 17. What is the probability of landing on an odd number after spinning a spinner with 7
equal sectors numbered 1 through 7?
Q 18. A dice is thrown once. What is the probability that the:
a. number is even b. number is greater than 2
Q 19. An envelope contains 20 sheets of paper which are numbered with the numbers 1 to
20. If anyone sheet is drawn at random, what is the probability that the sheet has a
number that is a factor of 20?
Q 20. There are 10 counters in a bag: 3 are red, 2 are blue and rest are green.
The contents of the bag are shaken before Rita randomly chooses one counter from the
bag. What is the probability that she doesn't pick a red counter?
Q 21. The diagram shows a spinner made up of a piece of card in the
shape of a regular pentagon, with a toothpick pushed through its
center. The five triangles are numbered from 1 to 5.
The spinner is spun until it lands on one of the five edges of the
pentagon. What is the probability that the number it lands on is
odd?
Q 22. One card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. Find the probability that the card
drawn is:
a. an ace b. a red card c. either a red card or a a red king
king
d. a face card e. a red face f. 2 of spade 10 of a black card
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card
Q 23. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability of getting:
a. an even number as the sum b. the sum as a prime number
b. the sum as a multiple of 3 d. a total of at least 10
Q 24. Three coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting:
a. exactly two heads b. at least one head c. at least two d. no tails
and one tail heads
Q 25. What is the probability that a leap year has 53 Sundays and 53 Mondays?
Q 26. The probability of selecting a green marble at random from a jar that contains only
green, white and yellow marble is . The probability of selecting a white marble at
random from the same jar is . If the jar contains 10 yellow marbles. What is the total
number of marbles in the jar?
Q 27. From a pack of 52 cards, Jacks, Queens, Kings and Aces of red colour are removed.
From the remaining cards, one card is drawn at random. Find the probability that the
card is:
a. a black queen c. a black jack
b. a red card d. a picture card
Q 28. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability that:
a. 5 will not come up on either of them
b. 5 will come up on at least one
c. 5 will come up at both the dice
Q 29. A number x is selected from 1, 2, 3 and a second number y is selected from 1, 4, and 9.
What is the probability that the product xy of the two numbers will be less than 9?
Q 30. A jar contains 24 marbles, some are green and others are blue. If a marble is drawn at
random from the jar, the probability that it is green is . Find the number of blue
marbles in the jar.
Q 31. Find the probability that a number selected at random from the numbers 1, 2, 3, …, 34,
35 is:
a. a prime number b. a multiple of 7 c. not a multiple of 7
Q 32. A bag contains 8 black, 5 white and 7 red counters. A counter is drawn at random from
the bag. Find the probability that the counter drawn is:
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a. neither red nor white
b. neither black nor red
c. neither white nor black
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