= ae PROBABILITY : a 475, A bag contains 5 red balls and Some biue baie Sabiity of drawing a blue ball is days l®: I the Pd ball then the number of blue bee at ag are the (1) 2 (2) 15 3) 12 4). 10 (Panchkula, Chandigarh, Stage-t, 29 1249 is out of which ‘bag contains 20 bal Fah if 10 more black balls are put in the sonnet probabilty of drawing a black ball is double of yi? it was before. The value of x is What (0 Oe @ 0 Bah (Delhi, Stage-|, 2012.43 477. The king, Queen and jack of clubs are re from a deck of 62 cards and then well shutneg One card is selected from the remaining cards, The probability of getting a club is 476. 13 10 99 @ a 3 at ® 49 ® a9 (Mizoram, Stage-I, 2012-13) 478. A die is thrown twice. The probability that 5 will not [Link] either of the time is 35 25 () 36 2) 36 1 4 @) 3g ® 36 (Rajasthan, Stage-l, 2013, 2014, Jharkhand, Stage-l, 2014-15) 479. In a class of boys and girls, an student is chosen at random. If the probability that a boy is chose? ee, is J of the probability that a girl is chosen, the ratio of the number of boys to the total number Students in the class is oe Q 2:5 () 3:5 (4) 2:3 ; (Haryana, Sage! 279 ilepot integer is chosen out of 1, 2, 3.100, What 1 O'he probabil that it is nether divisible by 4 nor by 6? (059 @ o87 @ 041 @) 033 (Stage-t, 2012-13) sen from the set ity that tis prime, is i. A natural number is k is cho {1,2,3,__,100}. The probabil 1 as 19 23 Po) s00 oe (Tamil Nadu, Stage4, 2014-16) ‘€2.4 bag contains 5 blue and 4 black balls, Three balls are drawn at ran idom. What is the probability that 2 are blue and 1 is black? tt) 2 @e ol> els 8) (4) None of these (Chandigarh, Stage-|, 2014-15) 3. Two dice are thrown at the same time. Then the Probability of getting the total Of at least 8 is 5 mo as 5 5 ®@ 3 os (Odisha, Stage, 2014-15) Mathematics 217, 486, 3 balls drawn randomly from a bag containing 3 black, 5 red and 4 blue balls. What is the probability that the balls drawn contain balls of different colors? 3 1 eG @ 5 4 2 @> oF (Kamataka, Stage-I, 2014-15) 487. From a pack of playing cards all cards whose moved. A card is Probability that the numbers are multiple of 3 are rer Now drawn at random. Then the Card drawn is an even numbere: d red card is 10 1 Os Qa 7 3 > 2 Degg (Chhattisgarh, Stage, 2014.45) 488. The Probability that a leap year selected will have 53 Sunday. is 1 2 > Qs 3 @®> @o (harkhand, Stage), 2014-15) ‘ed at random from first 50 ‘Two fair die are thrown. The probability the sum of the numbers appearing is 6 is 4 5 3 Qe fl st eg ® 36 (Bihar, Staged, 2014-15) " A bag contains 5 red and some biue balls. Ifthe Probability of drawing a blue ball is three times the blue balls in the bag is (1) 10 ®) 45 @) 12 @ 8 Probability of drawing a red ball then the number of (Bihar, Stage-t, 2014-15) . The probability that selected Number is a multiple of 3 of 4 ig 12 14 () Qs 14 8 ® 5 om (Delhi, Stage-t, 2014-15) 490. A point is selected at random from the interior of a circle. The probabilly that the selected point is Closer to the centre than the boundary ofthe circle is 1 (ty 2 1 Qt 1 @F 1 Ms (Delhi, Stage-t, 2015-16)218 Mathematics 491. | play a’game in which two dice are thrown together. | win if the product of the two numbers appearing on their tops is odd or a multiple of 5: The probability of my winning is 1 Os Blo 2) le 3) z as (Haryana, Stage-I, 2015-16) 492. Two coins are tossed simultaneously. What is the probability of getting at least one head? q @ @) @1 (Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Stage-1, 2015-16) 493. Bhavana is one among 7 Badminton player. The probability of selecting [Link] player in 5 players team is BIO Nie wre (1) @) @) @) MIO NIB NIN Ao (Karnataka, Stage-!, 2015-16) 494. A coin and a die is tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of the event that ‘ail’ and a prime number tums up? 0 @ (@) 4) (Maharashtra, Stage-t, 2015-16) el we IN ala Provious Year's NTSE Question) 1496, Three dice are thrown once. The probabiity the dice show different faces is fon (a) al @) Jo cin 3) 7 al 5 (Odisha, Stage-1, 2015.4 496. Two dice are tossed. The probability that the score is a prime number is 2 Blo @) 1 ® a @ 2 ° (Punjab, Stage, 2015-16) 497. A card is drawn from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. The probability that card is a red [Link] a) @ @) Ble. 8|= 3l= Or (Rajasthan, Stage-l, 2015-16) 498. A die is thrown twice. the probability of the su” being odd, is (1) @) () (4) Als ala wie nia 45) (Rajasthan, Stage nea ggg. The probability of guessing the correct answer to a certain test question is x/12. If the probability of not guessing the correct answer is 2/3, then x is equal to i (2 (2) 3° Ne (4) 6 — (Chandigarh, Stage-l, 2015-16)a a ° objective Type Questions : {single Option is Correct) : if 5 unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously. The probability of getting at least one head is a 31 (39 @) 30 Clie @ ¢ A box contains 5 red balls, 4 green balls and 7 white balls. A ball is drawn at random from the box. The probability that the ball drawn is neither red nor white is mo @ + @ 4 Oe If a book containing 100 pages is opened at random, then the probability that the number on the page will be a doublet, is 9 90 Oar ) F00 10 a2ok (2) ern 4) 400 Two dice are thrown simultaneously. The probability that the difference of numbers shown ‘on the dice is 1, is 5 4 O48 ® 6 a 41 @ & 4) 48 When two dice are thrown, the probability of getting a number always greater than 4 on the second die is rt @ 4 @® % 2 A box contains 20 balls bearing numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, ....., 20. A ball is drawn at random from the box. The probability that the number on the ball drawn is divisible by 2 or 3 is M$ a = 2 9 @ = 2 A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled deck of playing cards. The probability that the card drawn is neither a king nor a queen is 4 1 oF as @ 4% w 2 Ifone card is drawn from a deck of cards, then the probability of getting either a red face card or an ace of diamonds is 3 3 Dies = of, 45 d)oigy Adio The probability that in a family of 3 children, there will be at least one boy is 0) Cae (3) Blo ols @ Fif a number p is chosen at random from the interval [0, 5], then find the probabili lity that the quadratic =r x? + px + — “(p + 2) = 0 has real roots,Three faces of a fair dice are green, two faces are white and one face is black. The die is thrown three times then find the probability that the colours green, white and black appear in first, second and third throw respectively.Assertion & Reason Type Questions : In the following questions, a statement of assertion (A) is followed by a statement of reason (R). (1) If both Assertion & Reason are true and the reason is the correct explanation of the assertion, then mark (1). (2) If both Assertion & Reason are true but the reason is not the correct explanation of the assertion, then mark (2). (3) If Assertion is true statement but Reason is false, then mark (3). (4) If both Assertion and Reason are false statements, then mark (4). 1. A: If one number is selected from the set SSO, Wh 1) Wb oe 19}, then the probability of the last digit being 0 is 7 R: If two whole numbers are multiplied, then ‘il probability of the last digit being 0 is 70° : Ina single throw of a die, getting a number less than or equal to 6 is a sure event. R: If event Eis a sure event, then its Probability is equal to 1. A: Performing an experiment once is called a trial. R: The possible outcomes of a trial are called events. CTION Numerical Type Questions : id One card is drawn from a set of 17 cards numbered 1 to 17. The probability that the k number is divisible by 3 or 7 is 7 then k equals A rack has 5 different pairs of shoes. The probability that 4 shoes are chosen from it dali and there is no complete pair is p, then [| is equal to, where [-] denotes the greatest integer function Let p be the probability that sum of digits of a five digit number is even then 4p is equal to130. Ina retail market, fruit vendor were selling apples kept in packing boxes. These boxes contained varying numbers of apples. The following was the distribution of apples according to the number of boxes. 50-52 16 53-55 109 | 56-58 135 | 59-61 113 | 62-64 27 | Find the mean number of apples kept in a packing box, using step deviation method. “PROBABILITY, Objective Type Questions : 131. When two dice are thrown, the probability of getting ‘@ number always greater than 5 on the second die is my @ og ® ol+Nl= 182. A coin is tossed once. If a head comes up, then it is tossed once again and if a tail comes up, then a dice is thrown once. The number of ‘outcomes in the sample space of the experiment is 4 (7 Q6 @ 8 eae 433. Ruchi draws a card from a pack of playing cards. She replaces it and shuffles the pack. She continues doing this until she draws a spade. The chance that she will fail in first two times is % aS 1 Qe 1 9 @ % @ a5 1434. A box contains 30 balls bearing numbers 1, 2, 3, 4,..---. 30. A ball is drawn at random from the box. The probability that the number on the ball drawn is divisible by 2 or 3 is 3 7 oF @ 4 2 @z Os Cornorate Office : Aakash Tower. Pie ant ae — 195. Tarun tosses three different coins simultaneously, The probability that he gets at most one head is (1) 0.25 (2) 50% 3 @) 1 OF 496. A bag contains 6 black balls and some blue balls. If the probability of drawing a blue ball is twice that of a black ball, then the number of blue balls in the bag is (1) 8 2) 10 @) 4 @) 12 137. ‘Three women work independently on a problem. if the respective probabilities that they will solve it are 11 3 and }. then the probability that only second women is able to solve the problem is 3 4 @ 2 1 @5 Ms 198. 6 unbiased coins are tossed simultaneously. The Probability of getting at least one tail is an 63 O @ — Yea a 34 ® a a = 32 199. If two cards are drawn one after the other with replacement from a pack of 52 cards, then the Probability that both the cards are red is of elo " @> ot I" the probability of the occurrence of a certain event E is 4 77° then the odds against its currence is equal to 140. oF @t 4 @¢ [= @)441. If two numbers are selected simultaneously from the first 25 natural numbers, then the probability that the sum of the numbers is odd, is a2) 8 3 Pipe fs 13, © es Oe 142. The probability of getting 53 sundays in a leap year is equal to 4 2 oF QF 1 3 @7 5 143. If two integers x and y are chosen one after the cother with replacement from the integers -60, ~49, + 49, 50, then the probability that [2x + 5] < 4 and |Sy- 1] < 5 is 8 8 © Sona ® a01 6 4 ® 401 © sontot 4144. The probabilty of an event is 2, where 0 < x< 3 and the probability that the event is not happening is 1. The value of xis equal to 3 4 M4 @5 9 7 Oa Or 145. Three dice are thrown simultaneously. The probability of getting a total of 17 as sum of the numbers that appears on the dice is il ils (One 27 1 os On is from the 146. If a prime number is selected at random first 80 natural numbers, then the probabilly that it satisfies the inequation (x — 5\x ~ 23) = 0, is 13 4 0 as 4 o¢ 25 147. If a card is drawn at random from a pack of 52 playing cards, then the probability that it is neither a club nor a queen is 3 9 a @ 3 6 41 ® 45 W 33 148. There are 50 tickets numbered from 1 to 50 put in a box. If two tickets are drawn at random from the box with replacement, then the probability of getting an even number on both the tickets is 1 1 ira Qa 2 3 8) 3B 4 4 149. From any 3-digit number, if a number is selected at random, then the probability that the selected number is a multiple of 5 and 7 is a 13 Coat Ba 17 2 © a0 ® a 150. Out of 5 polygons : a pentagon, a hexagon, a hheptagon, an octagon and a nonagon. If one Polygon is selected at random, then the probability of getting a polygon having odd number of diagonals, is 1 5 a? 3 Os ® 1 151. A number is chosen at random from 1 to 100. The. probability that the chosen number is a square of prime is 1 a eg @ x 4 13 ® 35 OF 152. If two dice are thrown, then the odds against getting the sum 9, is (1) 8:9 @) 9:8 21:9 @) 8:4 steak tour & Puna Road. New [Link]153. If the odds in favour of an event are 3 then the probability of the occurrence of the event is 3 4 0 a> 7 ® @0 164. A letter is chosen at random from the letters of English alphabet. The probability that the selected letter is a letter of the word "EXAMINATION is 9 35 as 3 4 oz 4 185. There are 50 flowers of rose, 10 flowers of lotus and 30 flowers of sunfiower in a basket. if Amit Picks a flower at random, then the probability that Selected flower is a sunflower, is 5 Or 2) 1 5 elo (4) ‘Subjective Type Questions : 156. Three dice are thrown simultaneously, Find the probability of getting (Same number on all the throws. (i) A sum of at most 16. 187. A stock contains 100 mixer juicers out of which x are defective and the others are good. Mrs. ‘Sharma will buy a mixer juicer if itis good, but will not buy if it is defective. The seller draws one mixer juicer at random and gives it to her. If the probability that she will buy it, is 2. then find 1 the value of x and also find the probability that she will not buy it. Qa 168. 159, 160, 161 162. 163. 164, 165. ‘The odds against the occurrence of an event is 3 Find ()_ The odds in favour of its occurrence. (i) The probability of the ocourrence of the event, ‘A room contains 4 black, 5 red and 7 white chairs. If a chair is selected at random from the room, then what is the probability that it wll be (@) White? Black? (il) Red? Two dice are thrown at the same time. Find the probability that the sum of the two numbers appearing on the top of the dice is greater than or equal to 11 ‘A pack of 52 playing cards has only black cards with all its red cards removed. If a card is picked at random, then find the probability that () tis a face card, (i) Itis an ace. A coin is tossed three times. Find the probability oe () Getting the same outcome. (i) Getting head as the second outcome. (ii) Getting tail as the last outcome. Find the probability that a number selected from the first 100 natural numbers is even non-prime ‘number and divisible by 3, ‘The probabilty ofthe occurence of a certain event Eis 3. Find (The probability. of non-occurrence of the event. (i) The odds against its occurrence. Ati) The odds in favour ofits occurrence.