1. A pair of dice is thrown once.
Find the probability of getting
(i) even number on each dice
(ii) a total of 9.
(2019C)
2. A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting a number which
(i) is a prime number
(ii) lies between 2 and 6.
(Delhi - 2019)
3. 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
card taken out is
(i) a prime number less than 10,
(ii) a number which is a perfect square.
(AI - 2019)
4. Two different dice are tossed together. Find the probability:
(i) of getting a doublet
(ii) of getting a sum 10 of the numbers on the two dice.
(2018)
5. Two dice are rolled together. Find the probability of getting:
(i) a multiple of 2 on one and a multiple of 3 on the other die.
(ii) the product of two numbers on the top of the two dice is a perfect square number.
(CBSE - 2025)
6. Two dice are thrown at the same time. Determine the probability that the difference of the numbers
on the two dice is 2.
(CBSE - 2025)
7. 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.
(AI - 2017)
8. In a single throw of a pair of different dice, what is the probability of getting:
(i) a prime number on each dice?
(ii) a total of 9 or 11?
(Delhi - 2016)
9. Two different dice are thrown together. Find the probability of:
(i) getting a number greater than 3 on each die
(ii) getting a total of 6 or 7 of the numbers on two dice
(Delhi - 2016)
10. A box consists of 100 shirts of which 88 are good, 8 have minor defects and 4 have major
defects. Ramesh, a shopkeeper will buy only those shirts which are good but ‘Kewal’ another
shopkeeper will not buy shirts with major defects. A shirt is taken out of the box at random. What
is the probability that:
(i) Ramesh will buy the selected shirt?
(ii) ‘Kewal’ will buy the selected shirt?
(Delhi - 2016)
11. Three different coins are tossed together. Find the probability of getting:
(i) exactly two heads
(ii) at least two heads
(iii) at least two tails
(AI - 2016)
12. There are 100 cards in a bag on which numbers from 1 to 100 are written. A card is taken out
from the bag at random. Find the probability that the number on the selected card:
(i) is divisible by 9 and is a perfect square
(ii) is a prime number greater than 80
(AI - 2016)
13. A game consist of tossing a one-rupee coin 3 times and noting the outcome each time. Ramesh
will win the game if all the tosses show the same result, i.e., either all three heads or all three tails
and loses the game otherwise. Find the probability that Ramesh will lose the game.
(Foreign - 2016)
14. A bag contains some red and blue balls. Ten percent of the red balls, when added twenty
percent of the blue balls, give a total of 24. If three times the number of red balls exceeds the
number of blue balls by 20, find the number of red and blue balls.
(CBSE - 2025)
15. Peter throws two different dice together and finds the product of the two numbers obtained.
Rina throws a die and squares the number obtained. Who has the better chance to get the number
25?
(Delhi - 2017)
16. Two different dice are thrown together. Find the probability that the numbers obtained have:
(i) even sum and
(ii) even product.
(AI - 2017)
17. A number x is selected at random from the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. Another number y is selected
at random from the numbers 1, 4, 9 and 16. Find the probability that product of x and y is less than
16.
(AI - 2016)
18. A number x is selected at random from the numbers 1, 4, 9, 16 and another number y is selected
at random from the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4. Find the probability that the value of xy is more than 16.
(AI - 2016)
19. Case Study : Diwali Fair : A game in a booth at a Diwali Fair involves using a spinner first.
Then, if the spinner stops on an even number, the player is allowed to pick a marble from a bag.
The spinner and the marbles in the bag are represented in figure. Prizes are given, when a black
marble is picked. Shweta plays the game once.
(i) What is the probability that she will be allowed to pick a
marble from the bag?
(ii) Suppose she is allowed to pick a marble from the bag, what is the probability of getting a prize,
when it is given that the bag contains 20 balls out of which 6 are black?
(2020)
20. A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow on a circular board, divided into 8 equal
parts, which comes to rest pointing at one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, …, 8 as shown in the given
figure which are equally likely outcomes. What is the probability that the arrow will point at:
(i) an odd number
(ii) a number greater than 3
(iii) a number less than 9.
(Delhi - 2016)
21. The given figure shows a disc on which a player spins an arrow twice. The fraction a/b is
formed, where ‘a’ is the number of sector on which arrow stops on the first spin and ‘b’ is the
number of the sector in which the arrow stops on second spin. On each spin, each sector has equal
chance of selection by the arrow. Find the probability that the fraction a/b > 1.
(Foreign - 2016)