HOLY CHILD PUBLIC SCHOOL
MATHS ASSIGNMENT
CIASS – X
Q1)Two coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting
(i) exactly one head
(ii) at most one head
(iii) no tail
Q2) Three coins are tossed simultaneously. What is the probability of getting at least two
heads?
Q3) A bag contains 5 white balls, 7 red balls, 4 black balls and 2 blue balls. One ball is
drawn at random from the bag. What is the probability that the ball drawn is
(i) white or blue
(ii) red or black
(iii) not white
(iv) neither white nor black
Q4) Find the probability that a number selected at random from the numbers 1 to 25 is not
a prime number, when each of the given numbers is equally likely to be selected.
Q5) Tickets numbered 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., 100, 101 are placed in a box and mixed thoroughly. One
ticket is drawn at random from the box. Find the probability that the number on the ticket is
(i) an even number
(ii) a number less than 16
(iii) a number which is a perfect square
(iv) a prime number less than 40
Q6) Find the probability of getting 53 Fridays in a leap year.
Q7) A and B throw a pair of dice. If A throws 9, find B’s chance of throwing a higher number.
Q8) A card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 cards. Find the probability that the card
drawn is
(i) a black king
(ii) either a black card or a king
(iii) black and a king
(iv) a jack, queen or a king
(v) neither a heart nor a king
(vi) spade or an ace
(vii) neither an ace nor a king
(viii) neither a red card nor a queen
(ix) other than an ace
(x) a ten
(xi) a spade
(xii) a black card
(xiii)the seven of clubs
(xiv) jack
(xv) the ace of spades
(xvi) a queen
(xvii) a heart
(xviii) a red card
(xix) neither a king nor a queen
Q9) In a simultaneous throw of a pair of dice, find the probability of getting.
(i) 8 as the sum
(ii) a doublet
(iii) a doublet of prime numbers
(iv) a doublet of odd numbers
(v) a sum greater than 9
(vi) an even number on first
(vii) an even number on one and h multiple of 3 on the other
(viii)neither 9 nor 11 as the sum of the numbers on the faces
(ix) a sum less than 6
(x) a sum less than 7
(xi) a sum more than 7
(xii) at least once
(xiii)a number other than 5 on any dice.
(xiv) even number on each die
(xv) 5 as the sum
(xvi) 2 will come up at least once
(xvii) 2 will not come either time
(xviii) the sum of the two numbers that turn up is 8?
(xix) of obtaining a total of 6?
(xx) of obtaining a total of 10?
(xxi) of obtaining the same number on both dice?
(xxii) of obtaining a total more than 9?
(xxiii) that the sum of the two numbers appearing on the top of the dice is 13?
(xxiv) that the sum of the numbers appearing on the top of the dice is less than or equal to
12?
(xxv)that the product of numbers appearing on the top of the dice is less than 9.
(xxvi) that the difference of the numbers appearing on the top of the two dice is 2.
(xxvii) that the numbers obtained have a product less than 16.
Q10) What is the probability that a leap year has 53 Sundays and 53 Mondays ?
Q11) The probability of selecting a green marble at random from a jar that contains only
green, white and yellow marbles is 1/4. The probability of selecting a white marble at
random from the same jar is 1/3. If this jar contains 10 yellow
marbles. What is the total number of marbles in the jar?
Q12) A die has its six faces marked 0, 1, 1, 1, 6, 6. Two such dice are thrown together and
the total score is recorded.
(i) How many different scores are possible?
(ii) What is the probability of getting a total of 7?
Q13 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?
Q14 A number x is selected from the numbers 1, 2, 3 and then a second number y is randomly
selected from the numbers 1, 4, 9. What is the probability that the product xy of the two numbers
will be less than 9 ?
Q15) A bag contains cards which are numbered from 2 to 90. A card is drawn at random
from the bag. Find the probability that it bears.
(i) a two-digit number (ii) a number which is a perfect square.
Q16) Cards numbered 1 to 30 are put in a bag. A card is drawn at random from this bag.
Find the probability that the number on the drawn card is:
(i) not divisible by 3. (ii) a prime number greater than 7.
(iii) not a perfect square number.
Q17) A card is drawn from an ordinary pack and a gambler bets that it is a spade or an ace.
What are the odds against his winning this bet?
Q18) Two dice are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, respectively. They are thrown,
and the sum of the numbers on them is noted. Find the probability of getting each sum
from 2 to 9 separately.
Q19) 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.
Q20) 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.
Q21) A bag contains, white, black and red balls only. A ball is drawn at random from the
bag. If the probability of getting a white ball is 3/10 and that of a black ball is 2/5,then find
the probability of getting a red ball. If the bag contains 20 black balls, then find the total
number of balls in the bag.
Q22) A bag contains 20 balls out of which x balls are red.
1. If one ball is drawn at random from the bag, find the probability that it is not
red.
2. If 4 more red balls are put into the bag, the probability of drawing are red ball
will be 5/4 times the probability of drawing a red ball in the first case. Find the
value of X.
CASE BASED QUESTIONS
Q23) ) A lot consists of 48 mobile phones of which 42 are good, 3 have only minor defects
and 3 have major defects. Varnika will buy a phone, if it is good but the trader will only buy
a mobile, if it has no major defect. One phone is selected at random from the lot. What is
the probability that it is
(i) acceptable to Varnika?
(ii) acceptable to the trader?
Q24) At a fete, cards bearing numbers 1 to 1000, one number on one card, are put in a box.
Each player selects one card at random and that card is not replaced. If the selected card
has a perfect square greater than 500, the player wins a prize. What is the probability that
(i) the first player wins a prize?
(ii) the second player wins a prize, if the first has won?
