MATHEMATICS WORKSHEET
CHAPTER :PROBABILITY
1.A jar contains 54 marbles each of which is blue, green or white. The
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probability of selecting a blue marble at random from the jar is 13 , and the
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probability of selecting green marble at random is 9 How many white
marbles does jar contain?
2.One ticket is drawn at random from a bag containing tickets numbered 1 to
40. What is the probability that the selected ticket has a number which is a
multiple of 7 is ?
3. A carton consists of 60 shirts of which 48 are good, 8 have major defects
and 4 have minor defects. Nigam, a trader, will accept the shirts which are
good but Anmol, another trader, will only reject the shirts which have major
defects. One shirt is drawn at random from the carton. Find the probability
that it is acceptable to Anmol.
4. The king, queen and ace of clubs and diamonds are removed from a deck
of 52 playing cards and the remaining cards are shuffled. A card is randomly
drawn from the remaining cards. Find the probability of getting (i) a card of
clubs ii) a red coloured card.
5. Three unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of
getting : (i) at least one head ii) exactly one tail iii)two heads and one tail.
6. For an event E, if P(E) + P(E) = q, then what is the value of q 2−4 ?
7. A box contains 90 discs which are numbered 1 to 90. If one disc 18 drawn
at random from the box. find the probability that it bears 2: (i) a two digit
number less than 40 (ii) number divisible by 5 and greater than 50 iii) a
perfect square number.
8. From the letters of the word "MOBILE", a letter is selected at random.
What is the probability that the selected letter is a vowel?
9. What is the probability that a number selected randomly from the
numbers 1,2, 3, .., 15 is a multiple of 4?
10. 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) a
jack, queen or a king
11. A card is selected at random from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards. What
is the probability of its being a red face card is?
12.Two dice are thrown at the same time. What is the probability that the
sum of the two numbers appearing on the top of the dice is (i) 8? (ii) 13?
(iii) 3 less than or equal to 12? Iv) 6 will come up at least once.
13Two friends were born in the year 2000. What is the probability that
they have the same birthday?.
14. Cards with numbers 2 to 101 are placed in a box. A card is selected a
random. Find the probability that the card has a square number.
15. A game consists of tossing a one-rupee coin 3 times and noting its
outcome each time. Hanif wins if all the tosses give the same result, i.e.,
three heads or three tails, and loses otherwise, calculate the probability
that hanif will lose the game.
16. 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
drawn ticket
(i) is a multiple of 7
(ii) is greater than 15 and a multiple of 5.
17. . 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 drawn card is 1. a king. 2. of red colour. 3.
a face card. 4. a queen
18. 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: (i)red or white (ii)
not black (iii) neither white nor black
19. What is the probability of getting 53 Mondays in a leap year?
20. 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
1. extremely patient 2. extremely kind or honest.
Which of the above values you prefer more?
