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Probability Worksheet

Grade - X

1. If P(E) = 0.15, what is the probability of ‘not E’? (1M)


2. A box contains 5 red marbles, 8 white marbles and 4 green marbles. One marble is taken out
of the box at random. What is the probability that the marble taken out will be (i) red ?
(ii) white ? (iii) not green? (3M)
3. A box contains 90 discs which are numbered from 1 to 90. If one disc is drawn at random
from the box, find the probability that it bears (i) a two-digit number (ii) a perfect square
number (iii) a number divisible by 5. (3M)
4. A die is thrown twice. What is the probability that (i) 5 will not come up either time?
(ii) 5 will come up at least once? (3M)
5. A letter of English alphabet is chosen at random. What is the probability that the chosen
letter is a consonant. (1M) [CBSE Delhi Set-I, 2020]
6. A die thrown once. What is the probability of getting an even prime number ?
(1M) [CBSE Delhi Set-II, 2020]
7. A number is chosen at random from the numbers – 5, – 4, – 3, – 2, – 1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Then
find the probability that the square of this number is less than or equal to 1. (1M)
[CBSE SQP, 2020-21] [Delhi Set-I, II, III, 2017]
8. A game consists of tossing a coin 3 times and noting the outcome each time, if getting the
same result in all the tosses is a success, find the probability of losing the game. (2M)
[CBSE Delhi Set-I, 2019]
9. The probability of selecting a blue marble at random from a jar that contains only blue, black
and green marbles is 1/5 . The probability of selecting a black marble at random from the same
jar is 1/4 . If the jar contains 11 green marbles, find the total number of marbles in the jar.
(2M) [CBSE OD, Set-I, 2019] [CBSE OD, Set-I, II, 2015]
10. A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting (i) a composite number, (ii) a prime
number. (2M) [CBSE Delhi Region, 2019]
11. An integer is chosen between 70 and 100. Find the probability that it is (i) a prime number
(ii) divisible by 7. (3M) [CBSE SQP, 2020-21]
12. Two coins are tossed simultaneously. What is the probability of getting (i) At least one
head? (ii) At most one tail? (iii) A head and a tail? (3M) [CBSE SQP, 2022-23]
13. Two different dice are thrown together. Find the probability that the number obtained.
(i) have a sum less than 7. (ii) have a product less than 16. (iii) is a doublet of odd numbers.
(3M) [CBSE Delhi Set-I, II, III, 2017]
14. The King, Queen and Jack of clubs are removed from a pack of 52 cards and then the
remaining cards are well shuffled. A card is selected from the remaining cards. Find the
probability of getting a card. (i) of spade (ii) of black king (iii) of club (iv) of jacks (5M)
[CBSE Comptt. Set-I, II, III, 2018]
15. A box contains cards numbered from 1 to 20. A card is drawn at random from the box. Find
the probability that number on the drawn card is (i) a prime number (ii) a composite number
(iii) a number divisible by 3 (5M) [CBSE Comptt. I, II, III, 2018]
16. A box contains 125 shirts out of which 110 are good 12 have minor defects and 3 have major
defects Ram Lal will buy only those shirts which are good while Naveen will reject only
those which have major defects. A shirt is taken out at random from the box. Find the
probability that: (i) Ram Lal will buy it. (ii) Naveen will buy it. (5M)
[CBSE OD Set-III, 2017]
17. Cards on which numbers 1, 2, 3 ...... 100 are written (one number on one card and no number
is repeated) and put in a bag and are mixed thoroughly. A card is drawn at random from the
bag. Find the probability that card taken out has: (i) An even number (ii) A number which is
a multiple of 13. (iii) A perfect square number (iv) A prime number less than 20. (5M)
[CBSE Delhi Comptt. Set-I, 2017] [CBSE SQP, 2016]
18. One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of getting
(i) a king of red colour (ii) a face card (iii) a red face card (iv) the jack of hearts
(v) a spade (vi) the queen of diamonds.
19. Five cards—the ten, jack, queen, king and ace of diamonds, are well-shuffled with their face
downwards. One card is then picked up at random. (i) What is the probability that the card is
the queen? (ii) If the queen is drawn and put aside, what is the probability that the second card
picked up is (a) an ace? (b) a queen?
20. Nishant and Kapil are playing a game of darts. They use this dart board. (4M)

Here are the rules of the game: When your dart is placed in any circular region, you get the
points mentioned in that region. If your dart strikes outside the circles you get zero points.
During the game all the darts of both Nishant and Kapil fall in the circular region. The radius
of the innermost circle is 7 cm and the width of all other circular regions is 7 cm.
Q. 1. Nishant throws the first dart. What is the probability of Nishant getting a score of 100
in the first throw?
OR
Kapil threw a dart which hits the board. What is the probability of the dart hitting the
outermost circular region on the board?
Q.2. In the first three throws Nishant gets 75 points in two throws and 100 points in the third
throw. What is the probability of Nishant getting a 75 in the next throw?
Q. 3. What is the probability of Kapil getting a score of 25 points in the first throw?

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