Thursday, 25 July 2024

WORKSHEET-1OF PROBABILITY

                                                                        

1. Which of the following, can be the probability of an event ?

(a) –0.04.      

(b) 1.004.    

(c) 18 / 23 

(d) 8 / 7

2. A card is selected at random from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards. The probability of its being a face card is 

(a) 3 / 13.       

(b) 4 / 13.   

(c) 6 / 13.      

(d) 9/13.  

3. A bag contains 3 red balls, 5 white balls and 7 black balls. What is the probability that  a ball drawn from the bag at random will be neither red nor black ?

(a) 1/5.       

(b) 1/3.      

(c) 7/15.    

(d) 8/15.   

4. If an event cannot occur, then its probability is :

(a) 1.      

(b) 3/4.     

(c) 1/2.        

(d) 0.

5. Which of the following cannot be the probability of an event ?

(a) 1/3.    

(b) 0.1.     

(c) 3%       

(d) 17/16

6. An event is very unlikely to happen. Its probability is closest to :

(a) 0.0001 

(b) 0.001 

(c) 0.01 

(d) 0.1

7. If the probability of an event is p, the probability of its complementary event will be :

(a) p – l 

(b) p 

(c) 1 – p 

(d) 1 1 − p

8. The probability expressed as a percentage of a particular occurrence can never be

(a) less than 100 

(b) less than 0

(c) greater than 1 

(d) anything but a whole number

9. If P(A) denotes the probability of an event A, then

(a) P(A) < 0 

(b) P(A) > 1 

(c) 0 ≤ P(A) ≤ 1 

(d) –1 ≤ P(A) ≤ 1

10. A card is selected from a deck of 52 cards. The probability of its being a red face card is:

(a) 3/26 

(b) 3/13 

(c) 2/13 

(d) 1/2

11. The probability that a non leap year selected at random will contain 53 Sundays is:

(a) 1/

(b) 2/

(c) 3/

(d) 5/7


12. When a die is thrown, the probability of getting an odd number less than 3 is:

(a) 1/

(b) 1/

(c) 1/

(d) 0

13. A card is drawn from a deck of 52 cards. The event E is that the card is not an ace of hearts. The number of outcomes favourable to E is :

(a) 4 

(b) 14 

(c) 21 

(d) 51

14. The probability of getting a bad egg in a lot of 400 is 0.035. The number of bad eggs in 

the lot is :

(a) 7 

(b) 14 

(c) 21 

(d) 28

15. A girl calculates that the probability of her winning the first prize in a lottery is 0.08. If 6000 tickets are sold, how many tickets has she bought ?

(a) 40 

(b) 240 

(c) 480 

(d) 750

16. One ticket is drawn at random from a bag containing tickets numbered 1 to 40. The probability that the selected ticket has a number which is a multiple of 5 is 

(a) 1/5

(b) 3/

(c) 4/5

(d) 1/3

17. Someone is asked to take a number from 1 to 100. The probability that it is prime is :

(a) 1/

(b) 6/25 

(c) 1/

(d) 13/50

18. A school has five houses A, B, C, D and E. A class has 23 students, 4 from house A, 8 from house B, 5 from house C, 2 from house D and rest from house E. A single student is selected at random to be the class monitor. The probability that the selected student is not from A, B and C is :

(a) 4/23

(b) 6/23 

(c) 8/23 

(d) 17/23

19. A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. Probability that the card drawn is neither a red card nor a queen :

(a) 5/13 

(b)  3/13 

(c)  2/13 

(d) 6/13

20. An unbiased die is tossed once. The probability of getting a multiple of 2 or 3 :

(a) 1/

(b)  5/

(c) 1/

(d)  2/3

21. A child has dice, whose six faces show the letters as given below :

 A ,B ,C ,D ,A ,D, A

The dice is thrown once. The probability of getting D is :

(a) 1/

(b) 2/

(c) 1/

(d) None of these

22. Cards marked with numbers 1, 3, 5, ...., 101 are placed in a bag and mixed thoroughly. A card is then drawn at random from the bag. The probability that the number on the drawn card is a prime number less than 20 is :

(a) 7/51 

(b) 5/51 

(c) 13/51 

(d) 9/51

23. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. The probability of getting doublet of even numbe


(a) 1/12 

(b) 5/12 

(c) 7/12 

(d) 3/4

24. A number selected at random from the numbers 1 to 30, the probability that it is a prime number is :

(a) 1/

(b) 3/

(c) 2/

(d) 1/3


II. FILL IN THE BLANKS


1. Tossing a coin is an ______________.

2. The theoretical probability is also known as ____________ probability.

3. The ___________ of the probabilities of all the elementary events of an experiment is 1.

4. P(E) = 1 – ______________.

5. The probability of an _____________ event is 0.

6. A deck of playing cards has _____________ suits.

7. Kings, queens and jacks are called ____________ cards.

8. There are ____________ aces in a pack of playing cards.

9. Sample space when two coins are tossed simultaneously are ____________.

10. Probability of getting a number less than 50 on a die is ___________.


III. VERY SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS.      


1. A die is thrown. Find the probability of getting 1.

2. Probability of which event is 100%?

3. If a number is chosen at random from the numbers 1 to 20, find the probability of getting 

a prime number.

4. If a letter of English alphabet is chosen at random, then find the probability that the letter 

is a vowel.

5. Find the probability of getting a number between 3 and 100 which is divisible by 7.

6. In tossing two coins, find the probability of getting 2 heads.

7. Find the probability of selecting an even prime number from 1 to 50.

8. A dice is thrown once. What is the probability of getting a number greater than 4.

9. Find the probability of getting a factor of 6 in throwing a die.

10. Two friends are born in the year 2010. What is probability that they have the same birthday?

                                                                       


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