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PROBABILITY

1. A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting a number less than 3.
2. Two coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting exactly one head.
3. From a well shuffled pack of cards, a card is drawn at random. Find the probability of getting a black
queen.
4. A die is thrown once. What is the probability of getting a number less than 4?
5. What is the probability that a number selected at random from the numbers 3, 4, 5….9 is a multiple
of 4?
6. Cards marked with numbers 13, 14, 15, …., 60 are placed in a box and mixed thoroughly. One card
is drawn at random from the box. Find the probability that number on the card drawn is
i. Divisible by 5
ii. A number is a perfect square
7. A bag contains 6 red balls and some blue balls. If the probability of drawing a blue ball from the bag
is twice that of a red ball, find the number of blue balls in the bag.
8. A bag contains tickets numbered 11, 12, 13,…,30. A ticket is taken out from the bag at random.
Find the probability that the number on the ticket drawn
i. A multiple of 7
ii. Is greater than 15 and a multiple of 5.
9. The king, queen and jack of clubs are removed from a deck of 52 playing cards and the remaining
cards are shuffled. A card is drawn from the remaining cards. Find the probability of getting a card of
i. Heart
ii. Queen
iii. Clubs
10. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. What is the probability that:
i. 5 will not come up on either of them?
ii. 5 will come up on at least one?
iii. 5 will come up at both dice?
11. Find the probability that a number selected at random from the numbers 1,2,3,…. 35 is a
i. Prime number
ii. Multiple of 7
iii. A multiple of 3 or 5
12. From a pack of 52 playing cards Jacks, queens, 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
i. A black queen
ii. A red card
iii. A black jack
iv. A picture card (Jacks, queens and kings are picture cards).
13. There are 30 cards of same size, in a bag on which numbers 1 to 30 are written. One card is taken
out of the bag at random. Find the probability that the number on the selected card is not divisible
by 3.
14. A bag contains 5 red, 8 white and 7 black balls. A ball is drawn at random from the bag. Find the
probability that the drawn ball is
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i. Red or white
ii. Not black
iii. Neither white nor black.
15. Find the probability that a number selected from the number 1 to 25 is not a prime number when
each of the given numbers is equally likely to be selected.
16. 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
17. A bag contains 4 red, 5 black and 6 white balls. A ball is drawn from the bag at random. Find the
probability that the ball drawn is:
i. White
ii. Red
iii. Not black
iv. Red or white
18. A bag contains 3 red, 5 black and 4 white balls. A ball is drawn from the bag at random. Find the
probability that the ball drawn is:
i. White?
ii. Red?
(ii) Not red?
(iii) Black?
19. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability of getting:
a. An even number as the sum
b. The sum as a prime number
c. A total of at least 10
d. A doublet of even number
e. A multiple of 2 on one dice and a multiple of 3 on the other.
f. Same number on both dice i.e. a doublet.
g. A multiple of three as a sum.
20. Two unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting
i. Two heads
ii. One head
iii. One tail
iv. At least one head
v. At most one head
vi. No head
21. Arham’s class made a project about pets. There were 30 students in his class. Fifteen had dogs,
five had cats, three had parrots and the rest had no pets at all. They randomly picked out a name.
i. What is the probability that student had four-legged pet?
ii. What is the probability that student had a dog?
iii. What is the probability that the student had no pet?
iv. What is the probability that the student had a pet which can fly?
22. A bag contains 20 oranges, 10 apples and 40 mangoes. One fruit is taken out at random from the
bag. Find the probability that the drawn fruit is:
i. An apple
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ii. An apple or orange
iii. A mango
iv. Not an orange
23. Manasa was given two bags A and B full of candies. There were 10 chocolate candies and 5 mango
candies in bag A. There were 7 chocolate candies and 3 strawberry candies in bag B. She wants to
eat a chocolate candy. From which bag, should she take the candy, so that the probability of taking
a chocolate candy is greater?
24. There are 8 men and 7 women candidates appearing in an interview for filling up one vacant post.
Find the probability that:
i. A man is selected
ii. A woman is selected
25. Cards marked with numbers 5, 6, 7, ….. 74 are placed in a bag and mixed thoroughly. One card is
drawn at random from the bag. Find the probability that the number on the card is a perfect square.
26. A bag contains 19 cards, bearing numbers 1, 2, 3, …19. A card is drawn at random from the bog.
Find the probability that number on the card is:
a. Prime
b. Divisible by 3
27. A game consists of tossing a coin 3 times and noting its outcome each time. Hanif wins if he gets
three heads or three tails, and loses otherwise. Calculate the probability that Hanif will lose the
game.
28. Aisha and Soha are two friends. They were both born in 2007. What is the probability that they
have?
a. Same birthday
b. Different birthdays
29. An urn contains 18 red, 16 white, 14 black balls. A ball is drawn at random from the urn. Find the
probability that the drawn ball is:
a. Red or white
b. Neither black nor white
30. Cards marked with numbers 13, 14, 15,….70 are placed in a box and mixed thoroughly. One card is
drawn at random from the box. Find the probability that the number on the card is:
a. Divisible by 5
b. A number which is a perfect square.
31. Two dice are rolled once. Find the probability of getting such numbers on two dice, whose product
is 12.
32. Why is tossing a considered to be a fair way of deciding which team should get the at the beginning
of a football game?
33. In the word “ASSASSINATION’, find the probability of getting a vowel.
34. Find the probability of getting a vowel in the word ‘RAMANUJAN’.
35. Find the probability of getting a consonant in the word ‘MATHEMATICA’.
36. 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. What is the probability that it will point at?
a. A prime number?
b. A factor of 8?
37. A box contains 80 cards numbered from 1 to 80. If one card is drawn at random from the box, find
the probability that it bears:
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a. A perfect square number
b. A number divisible by 2 and 5
38. A box contains 35 blue, 25 white and 40 red marbles. If a marble is drawn at random from the box,
find the probability that the drawn marble is:
a. White
b. Not blue
c. Neither white nor blue
39. A box contains 100 red cards, 200 yellow cards and 50 blue cards. If a card is drawn at random
from the box, then find the probability that it will be:
a. A blue card
b. Not a yellow card
c. Neither yellow nor a blue card.
40. Two different dice are thrown at the same time. Find the probability that the sum of the two
numbers appearing on the top of the dice is 7.
41. A bag contains 18 balls out of which x balls are red.
i. If one ball is drawn at random from the bag, what is the probability that it is red?
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ii. If 2 more red balls are put in the bag, the probability of drawing red ball will be 8 times than
that in part (i). Find x.
42. What is the probability that a non−leap year selected randomly will have 53 Sundays?
43. What is the probability of having 53 Mondays in a leap year?
44. A jar contains 24 marbles, some are green and others are blue. If a marble is drawn at random from
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the jar, the probability that it is green is 3. Find the number of blue marbles.
45. A number is selected at random from first 50 natural numbers. Find the probability that is a multiple
of 3 and 4.
46. One card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of getting:
i. A king of red suit
ii. A face card
iii. A red face card
iv. A queen of black suit
v. A jack of hearts
vi. A spade
47. Five cards – ten, jack, queen, king and an ace of diamonds are shuffled face downwards. One card
is picked at random.
i. What is the probability that the card is a queen?
ii. If a king is drawn first and put aside, what is the probability that the second card picked up is
the (i) ace? (ii) king?
48. From a pack of 52 playing cards Jacks, queens, 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
i. A black queen
ii. A red card
iii. A black jack
iv. A picture card
49. Red queens and black jacks are removed from a pack of 52 playing cards. A card is drawn at
random from the remaining cards, after reshuffling them. Find the probability that the card drawn is
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i. A king
ii. Red colour
iii. A face card
iv. A queen
50. All jacks, queens and kings are removed from a pack of 52 cards. The remaining cards are well-
shuffled and then a card is randomly drawn from it. Find the probability that the card is
i. A black face card
ii. A red card
51. From a well shuffled pack of cards, a card is drawn at random. Find the probability of getting a black
queen.
52. The king, queen and jack of clubs are removed from a deck of 52 playing cards and the remaining
cards are shuffled. A card is drawn from the remaining cards. Find the probability of getting a card of
i. Heart
ii. Queen
iii. Clubs
53. From a pack of 52 playing cards Jacks, queens, 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
i. A black queen
ii. A red card
iii. A black jack
iv. A picture card (Jacks, queens and kings are picture cards).
54. The king, queen and jack of clubs are removed from a deck of 52 playing cards and then well
shuffled. Now, one card is drawn at random from the remaining cards. Determine the probability
that the card is:
i. A heart
ii. A king
iii. A club
iv. 10 of hearts
55. All the jacks, queens and kings are removed from a deck of 52 playing cards. The remaining cards
are well shuffled and then one card is drawn at random. Giving ace a value of 1 similar value for
other cards, find the probability that the card has a value:
i. 7
ii. Greater than 7
iii. Less than 7
56. From a well shuffled pack of 52 playing cards, black jacks, black kings and black aces are removed.
A card is then drawn at random from the remaining pack. Find the probability of getting:
i. A red card
ii. Not a diamond
57. A card is drawn at random from a pack of well shuffled deck of playing cards. Find the probability
that the card is:
i. A king or a jack
ii. A card of spade or an ace
iii. A king of red colour
iv. A face card
v. The queen of diamonds
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58. All kings, queens and aces are removed from a pack of 52 cards. The remaining cards are well
shuffled and then a card is drawn from it. Find the probability that the drawn card is:
i. A black face card
ii. A red card
59. A card is drawn from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find the probability that the card drawn is
neither a black card nor a queen.
60. From a pack of 52 playing cards, a card is drawn at random. Find the probability, that the drawn
card is not a face card.
61. From a group of 2 boys and 2 girls, two children are selected at random. What is the sample space
representing the event? Find the probability that one boy and one girl is selected.
62. Aisha throws a die once. Find the probability that she shows a number less than 5.
63. Arham says the sum of the probability of all the events of an experiment is one. Do you agree with
him? Justify.
64. A box contains cards numbered 3, 5, 7, 9, …… 35, 37. A card is drawn at random from the box. Find
the probability that the number on the drawn card is a prime number.
65. Two customers Shyam and Ekta are visiting a particular shop in the week (Tuesday to Saturday).
Each is equally likely to visit the shop on any day. What is the probability that both will visit the shop
on:
i. The same day?
ii. Consecutive day?
66. An unbiased die is thrown. What is the probability of getting:
i. An even number
ii. A multiple of 3
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vi. A number between 3 and 6.
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viii. An odd number
ix. A number greater than 3
67. Find the probability of getting the sum of two numbers less than 3 or more than 11, when a
pair of distinct dice is thrown together.
68. 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.
69. 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?
70. 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.
71. 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 an
arrow will point at any factor of 8.
72. In a family of 3 children, find the probability of having at least one boy.
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73. The probability of selecting a blue marble at random from a jar that contains only blue, black and
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green marbles is 5. The probability of selecting a black marble at random from the same jar is 4. If
the jar contains 11 green marbles, find the total number of marbles in the jar.
74. Cards marked with numbers 5 to 50 (one number on one card) are placed in a box and mixed
thoroughly. One card is drawn at random from the box. Find the probability that the number on the
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75. A child has a die whose 6 faces show the letters given below: AC

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The die is thrown once. What is the probability of getting (i) A (ii) B?
76. Chandana throws a pair of dice and records the product of the numbers appearing on the dice.
Manasa throws 1 dice and records the squares the number that appears on it. Who has the better
chance of getting the number 36? Justify?
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77. If probability of happening of an event is 7, then find the probability of non-happening of this event.
78. A box contains cards bearing numbers from 6 to 70. If one card is drawn at random from the box,
find the probability that it bears
a. A one−digit number
b. A number divisible by 5
79. If P(𝐸)=0.007, then find the probability of ‘not E’.
80. An integer is chosen between 70 and 100. Find the probability that it is a
i. A prime number
ii. Divisible by 7
81. Write two examples of equally likely events.
82. A box contains 4 red balls, 5 green balls and P white balls. If the probability of random picked ball
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from the box to be a red ball is 3, then find the number of white balls.
83. From the English alphabet if a letter is chosen at random, then find the probability that the letter is a
consonant.
84. A bag contains balls which are numbered from 1 to 50. A ball is drawn at random from the bag, the
probability that it bears a two-digit number multiple of 7.
85. A dice is thrown once. Find the probability of getting a composite number.
86. From the following data, find the probability of selecting ‘B’ blood group student.
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87. From the first 50 natural numbers, find the probability of randomly selected number is a multiple of
3.
88. One card is selected from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards. find the probability of getting a red card
with prime number.
89. Find the probability of getting a prime number when a card is drawn at random from the numbered
cards from 1 to 25.
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90. There are 5 red balls, 4 green balls and 6 yellow balls in a box. If a ball is selected at random, what
is the probability of not getting a yellow ball?
91. Find the probability of getting a sum of the numbers on them is 7, when two dice are rolled at a
time.
92. The probability of an event is always in between 0 and 1. Why?
93. When a card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards, then find the probability of NOT getting
a red-faced card.
94. When a die is rolled once unbiased, what is the probability of getting a multiple of 3 out of possible
outcomes?
95. There are 12 red balls, 18 blue balls and 6 white balls in abox. When a ball is drawn at random from
the box, what is the probability of not getting a red ball?
96. If two dice are thrown at the same time, find the probability of getting sum of the dots on top is
prime.
97. Suppose you drop a dice at random on the circular region of diameter 28cm as shown in the figure.
What is the probability that it will land inside the rectangle?
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98. A bag contains some square cards. A prime number between 1 and 100 has been written on each
card. Find the probability of getting a card that the sum of the digits of prime number written on it is
8.
99. Two dice are rolled at same time and the sum of the numbers appearing on them is noted. Find the
probability of getting each sum from 3 to 5 separately.
100. There are 100 flash cards labelled from 1 to 100 in bag. When a card is drawn from the bag at
random, what is the probability of getting
a. A card with prime number from possible outcomes?
b. A card without prime number from possible outcomes?
101. A shopkeeper has 100 memory cards in a box. Among them, 15 memory cards are defective. When
a person came to the shop to buy a memory card, the shopkeeper drew a memory card at random
from the box. Then,
a. What is the probability that this memory card is defective?
b. After drawing the first memory card which is defective, it is not placed back in the box.
Then another memory card is drawn at random. What is the probability that this memory
card is NOT defective?