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Assignment 2: Probability
1. The theoretical probability P(E) of an event E is defined as:
No. of all possible outcomes of the experiment
(a) P(E) =
No. of outcomes favourable to E
(b) P(E) = No. of outcomes favourable to E  Total no. of outcomes
No. of outcomes favourable to E
(c) P(E) =
No. of all possible outcomes of the experiment
(d) None of these
2. For an event E, the correct inequality is
(a) 0  P ( E )  1 (b) 0  P ( E )  1 (c) 0  P ( E )  1 (d) 0  P ( E )  1
3. The sum of the probabilities of all the elementary events of an experiment is
(a) 0 (b) 1 (c) -1 (d) None of these
4. The correct relationship is
( )
(a) P ( E ) = 1 + P E ( )
(b) P E − P ( E ) = 1 ( )
(c) P E + P ( E ) = 1 (d) None of these
5. Which of the following cannot be the probability of an event?
1 5
(a) 0 (b) (c) (d) 1
5 4
6. In a throw of a die, the probability of getting an odd number less than 3 is
1 2 1
(a) 0 (b) (c) (d)
6 6 2
7. A card is drawn from a pack of 52 playing cards. The probability that it is a queen is
1 1 4 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
52 13 13 4
8. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. The probability of getting a doublet is
(a) 0 (b) 1/3 (c) 1/6 (d) 5/6
9. In tossing of 3 coins, the probability of getting exactly 1 head is
(a) 3/8 (b) 2/3 (c) 1/3 (d) 1/4
10. A number is selected from the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4,…...25. What is the probability that the number selected
is a multiple of 5?
(a) 1/25 (b) 1/5 (c) 4/5 (d) 4/25
11. One card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. What is the probability of getting a
face card?
(a) 3/13 (b) 1/4 (c) 1/13 (d) 4/13
12. A bag contains 8 red, 2 black and 7 white balls. One ball is drawn at random. The probability that the ball
drawn is not white is
(a) 5/17 (b) 10/17 (c) 2/17 (d) 8/17
13. A number x is chosen at random from the numbers -3, -2,-1, 0, 1, 2, 3, the probability that x  2 is
(a) 5/7 (b) 2/7 (c) 3/7 (d) 1/7
x
14. The probability of guessing the correct answer to a certain test question is . If the probability of not
12
guessing the correct answer to this question is 2/3, then x =
 (a) 2 (b) 3 (c) 4 (d) 6
15. A bag contains three green marbles, four blue marbles, and two orange marbles. If a marble is picked at
random, then the probability that it is not an orange marble is
(a) 1/4 (b) 1/3 (c) 4/9 (d) 7/9
16. A number is selected at random from the numbers 3, 5, 5, 7, 7, 7, 9, 9, 9, 9. The probability that the selected
number is their average is
(a) 1/10 (b) 3/10 (c) 7/9 (d) 9/10
17. In a single throw of a pair of dice, the probability of getting the sum a perfect square is
(a) 2/18 (b) 7/36 (c) 1/6 (d) 2/9
18. Which of the following cannot be the probability of an event?
(a) 4/7 (b) -3/7 (c) 10% (d) 0.8
19. A die is thrown 50 times with the following frequency for the outcomes of 1, 2, 3, 4.
Outcomes 1 2 3 4
Frequency 10 20 15 5

Find the probability of outcomes less than 3.

(a) 0.6 (b) 0.5 (c) 0.2 (d) 0.4
20. A dice is thrown twice. The probability of getting 4, 5 or 6 in the first and 1, 2, 3 or 4 in the second throw
is
(a) 1/3 (b) 2/3 (c)1/2 (d) 1/4
21. When two dice are thrown, find the probability of getting a number always greater than 5 on the second
die.
(a) 1/3 (b) 5/6 (c) 1/6 (d) 2/3
22. Two dice are thrown together. The probability that sum of the two numbers will be a multiple of 4 is
(a) 1/2 (b) 1/3 (c) 1/8 (d) 1/4
23. From a pack of 52 playing cards, face club cards are removed. The remaining cards are well shuffled and
a card is drawn at random. Find the probability that the card drawn is a heart card.
(a) 1/4 (c) 13/49 (c) 3/52 (d) 49/52
24. A bag contains 3 red balls, 5 black balls and 4 white balls. A ball is drawn at random from the bag. Find
the probability of drawing not a black ball.
(a) 1/4 (b) 2/3 (c) 5/12 (d) 7/12
25. A child has a die whose six faces shows the letters as given below.

A B C C D B
The die is thrown once. Select the correct option.
(a) The probability of getting A is 1/6. (b) The probability of getting B is 1/3.
(c) The probability of not getting D is 5/6. (d) All of these
26. Two dice are thrown at the same time. Then the probability of getting the total of at least 8 is
(a) 7/12 (b) 5/12 (c) 5/6 (d) 5/36
27. A coin and a die are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of the event that 'tail' and a prime number
turns up.
(a) 1/2 (b) 1/4 (c) 1/3 (d) 2/3
28. A letter is chosen at random from the word 'MATHEMATICS'. What is the probability that it will be a
vowel?
(a) 1/2 (b) 3/8 (c) 3/11 (d) 4/11
29. A letter of English alphabet is chosen at random. The probability that the letter is a consonant is
(a) 21/26 (b) 5/26 (c) 23/26 (d) 19/26
30. A number x is chosen at random from the numbers -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4. What is the probability that
|x|<1?
(a) 1 (b) 0 (c) 2/9 (d) 1/9
31. Cards numbered from 1 to 64 are placed in a box. A card is drawn at random from the box. Find the
probability that the number drawn on the card is a perfect cube.
(a) 1/16 (b) 3/16 (c) 5/16 (d) 9/16
32. A bag contains 5 red coloured cards and some blue coloured cards. If the probability of drawing a blue
card from the bag is twice that of a red coloured card, find the number of blue cards in the bag.
(a) 6 (b) 8 (c) 10 (d) 7
33. The probability of getting a defective bulb in a lot of 500 bulbs is 0.290. Find the number of defective
bulbs in the lot.
(a) 140 (b) 145 (c) 50 (d) 100
34. Two dice are rolled once. Find the probability of getting such numbers on the two dice, whose product is
12.
(a) 1/9 (b) 2/9 (c) 4/9 (d) 5/9
35. A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting a number which is not a factor of 36.
(a) 1/6 (b) 2/3 (c) 1/5 (d) 0
36. The probability that an ordinary year contains 53 Sundays is
(a) 2/7 (b) 1/7 (c) 7/53 (d) 7/52
37. If a number x is chosen from the numbers 1, 2, 3 and a number y is selected from the numbers 1, 4, 9.
Then, P( xy  9 ) is
(a) 7/9 (b) 5/9 (c) 2/3 (d) 1/9
38. Three unbiased coins are tossed together, then which of the following is true?
(a) the probability of getting exactly 2 heads is 1/2.
(b) the probability of getting atleast one head is 5/8.
(c) the probability of getting atmost 2 tails is 3/8.
(d) the probability of getting exactly one tail is 3/8.
39. One card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards, then which of the following is true?
(a) the probability that the card will be diamond is 1/2.
(b) the probability of an ace of heart is 1/52.
(c) the probability of not a heart is 1/4.
(d) the probability of king or queen is 1/26.
40. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. Select the correct option.
(a) the probability of not getting doublet is 5/6.
(b) the probability of getting a total of at least 10 is 1/6.
(c) the probability of not getting a total as a perfect square is 29/36.
(d) All of these
41. Three dice are thrown once. Find the probability that all the dice show different faces.
(a) 5/18 (b) 2/9 (c) 8/15 (d) 5/9
42. A card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. The probability that the card will not be an
ace is
(a) 1/13 (b) 1/4 (c) 12/13 (d) 3/4
43. Two dice are thrown at the same time. The probability that, the sum of two numbers appearing on the top
of the dice is greater than 6 but less than 9, is
(a) 11/36 (b) 1/3 (c) 5/6 (d) 4/9
44. If a number x is chosen at random from the numbers -2, -1, 0, 1, 2. What is the probability that x2 < 2?
(a) 2/5 (b) 3/5 (c) 1/5 (d) 4/5
45. A carton consists of 52 shirts of which 46 are good, 3 have only minor defect and 3 have major defect.
Jigyasa will buy a shirt, if it is good but the trader will only buy a shirt, if it has no major defect. One shirt
is selected at random from the carton. The probability that it is acceptable to Jigyasa and trader are
respectively
23 49 49 23 29 49 23 49
(a) , (b) , (c) , (d) ,
26 52 52 26 26 52 52 52
46. A group consists of 12 persons, out of which 3 are extremely patient, other 6 are extremely honest and rest
extremely kind. A person from the group is selected at random. Assuming that each person is equally
likely to be selected, then the probability of selecting a person who is extremely patient and extremely
kind or honest are respectively
1 3 1 3 1 1 3 3
(a) , (b) , (c) , (d) ,
4 4 2 4 4 2 4 4
47. There are 12,000 notebooks to be distributed in a charity, 4000 of them, have to be distributed to NGO-1,
3000 of them to be distributed to NGO-2 and rest are distributed to NGO-3. If one notebook is selected at
random, then what is the probability that it is given to NGO-3?
(a) 5/12 (b) 7/12 (c) 1/3 (d) 1/4
48. The blood group of 16 students of class X are recorded as follows: A, B, O, O, AB, O, A, O, B, A, O, B,
A, O, O. AB. The probability of blood group O and A are respectively
4 2 7 1 4 1 2 2
(a) , (b) , (c) , (d) ,
15 3 15 3 15 3 15 3
49. From a group of 2 boys and 2 girls, two children are selected at random. Find the probability that one boy
and one girl are selected.
(a) 2/3 (b) 1/3 (c) 1 (d) 0
50. Cards numbered from 11 to 60 are kept in a box. If a card is drawn at random from the box, find the
probability that the number on the drawn card is
(i) an odd number
(ii) a perfect square numbers
(iii) divisible by 5
(iv) a prime number less than 20

(i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

(a) 1/2 1/5 2/25 4/25
(b) 2/25 1/2 1/5 2/25
(c) 1/2 1/5 2/25 2/25
(d) 1/2 2/25 1/5 2/25