H. D. Sr. sec.

Public School

Class 10 Maths Total Marks : 132

Probability Assignment

* Given section consists of questions of 2 marks each. [6]

1. The faces of a red cube and a yellow cube are numbered from 1 to 6. Both
cubes are rolled. What is the probability that the top face of each cube will have
the same number?
2. Examine each of the following statements and comment:
If a die in thrown once, there are two possible outcomes - an odd number or an
even number. Therefore, the probability of obtaining an odd number is 1

2
and
the probability of obtaining an even number is 1

2
.
3. A box contains 20 cards numbered from 1 to 20. A card is drawn at random
from the box. Find the probability that the number on the drawn card is:
i. Divisible by 2 or 3.
ii. A prime number.

* Given section consists of questions of 3 marks each. [12]

4. The probability of selecting a green marble at random from a jar that contains
only green, white and yellow marbles is 1

4
. The probability of selecting a white
marble at random from the same jar is . If this jar contains 10 yellow marbles.
1

What is the total number of marbles in the jar?

5. A and B throw a pair of dice. If A throws 9, find B's chance of throwing a higher
number.
6. A jar contains 24 marbles. Some of these are green and others are blue. If a
marble is drawn at random from the jar, the probability that it is green is 2

3
. Find
the number of blue marbles in the jar.
7. A group consists of 12 persons, of which 3 are extremely patient, other 6 are
extremely honest and rest are extremely kind. A person from the group is
selected at random. Assuming that each persion is equally likely to be selected,
find the probability of selecting a person who is:
i. Extermely patient.
ii. Extremely kind or honest. Which of the above values you prefer more.

* Given section consists of questions of 5 marks each. [90]

8. Two dice are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, respectively. They are

thrown and the sum of the numbers on them is noted. Find the probability of
getting each sum from 2 to 9 separately.

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 9. At a fete, cards bearing numbers 1 to 1000, one number on one card, are put in
a box. Each player selects one card at random and that card is not replaced. If
the selected card has a perfect square greater than 500, the player wins a prize.
What is the probability that:
i. The first player wins a prize?
ii. The second player wins a prize, if the first has won?
10. All the black face cards are removed from a pack of 52 cards. The remaining
cards are well shuffled and then a card is drawn at random. Find the probability
to getting a:
i. Face card.
ii. Red card.
iii. Black card.
iv. King.
11. A bag contains 6 red balls and some blue balls. if the probability of a drawing a
blue ball from the bag is twice that of a red ball, find the number of blue balls in
the bag.
12. Three coins are tossed together. Find the probability of getting:
i. Exactly two heads.
ii. At most two heads.
iii. At least one head and one tail.
iv. No tails.
13. One card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of
getting:
i. A king of red suit.
ii. A face card.
iii. A red face card.
iv. A queen of black suit.
v. A jack of hearts.
vi. A spade.
14. A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow which is equally likely to come
to rest pointing to one of the number 1, 2, 3, ....., 12 as shown in following
figure. What is the probability that it will point to:

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 i. 10?
ii. An odd number?
iii. A number which is multiple of 3?
iv. An even number?
15. Cards numbered 1 to 30 are put in a bag. A card is drawn at random from the
bag. Find the probability that the number on the drawn card is:
i. Not divisible by 3.
ii. A prime number greater that 7.
iii. Not a perfect square number.
16. Two different dice are thrown together. Find the probability that:
i. The sum of the numbers appeared is less than 7.
ii. The product of the numbers appeared is less than 18.
17. Two different dice are thrown together. Find the probability that the numbers
obtained:
i. Have a sum less than 7.
ii. Have a product less than 16.
iii. Is a doublet of odd numbers.
18. One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of
getting:
i. A king of red suit.
ii. A face card.
iii. A red face card.
iv. A queen of black suit.
v. A jack of hearts.
vi. A spade.
19. The king, the jack and the 10 of spades are lost from a pack of 52 cards and a
card is drawn from the remaining cards after shuffling. Find the probability of
getting a:
i. Red card.
ii. Black jack.
iii. Red king.
iv. 10 of hearts.
20. Find the probability of getting the sum of two numbers, less than 3 or more
than 11, when a pair of distinct dice is thrown together.
21. Tickets numbered 2, 3, 4, 5, ..., 100, 101 are placed in a box and mixed
thoroughly. One ticket is drawn at random from the box. Find the probability
that the number on the ticket is:
i. An even number.
ii. A number less than 16.
iii. A number which is a perfect square.

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 iv. A prime number less than 40.
22. Cards marked with numbers 5 to 50 are placed in a box and mixed thoroughly. A
card us drawn from the box at random. Find the probability that the number on
the taken out card is:
i. A prime number less than 10.
ii. A number which is a perfect square.
23. Cards bearing numbers 1, 3, 5, ..., 35 are kept in a bag. A card is drawn at
random from the bag. Find the probability of getting a card bearing:
i. A prime number less than 15.
ii. A number divisible by 3 and 5.
24. A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled deck of playing deck of playing
cards. Find the probability that the card drawn is:
i. A card of spades or an ace.
ii. A red king.
iii. either a king or a queen.
iv. neither a king nor a queen.
25. Two dice are rolled together. Find the probability of getting such numbers on
two dice whose product is a perfect square.

* Case study based questions [24]

26. Rahul goes to a fete in Mussoorie. There he saw a game having prizes - wall
clocks, power banks, puppets and water bottles. The game consists of a box
having cards inside it, bearing the numbers I to 200, one on each card. A person
has to select a card at random. Now, the winning of prizes has the following
conditions:
Wall clock- If the number on the selected card is a perfect square.
Power bank - If the number on the selected card is multiple of 3.
Puppet - If the number on selected card is divisible by 10.
Water bottle - If the number on the selected card is a prime number
more than 100 but less than 150.
Better luck next time - If the number on the selected card is a perfect
cube.

On the basis of above information, answer the following questions.

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 i. Find the probability of winning a puppet.
ii. What is the probability of winning a water bottle?
iii. What is the probability of winning a Power bank?
Or
What is the probability of winning a wall clock?

27. Rohit wants to distribute chocolates in his class on his birthday. 'The chocolates
are of three types: Milk chocolate, White chocolate and Dark chocolate. If the
total number of students in the class is 54 and everyone gets a chocolate, then
answer the following questions.

i. If the probability of distributing milk chocolates is 1

3
then the number of
milk chocolates Rohit has ?
ii. If the probability of distributing dark chocolates is 4

9
If the probability of
distributing dark chocolates is.
iii. If the probability of distributing dark chocolates is.
Or
The probability of distributing both milk and white chocolates is.

28. A middle school decided to run the following spinner game as a fund-raiser on
Christmas Carnival.

Making Purple: Spin each spinner once. Blue and red make purple. So, if one
spinner shows Red (R) and another Blue (B), then you 'win'. One such outcome
is written as 'RB'.

(i) List all possible outcomes of the game.

(ii) Find the probability of 'Making Purple'.
(iii) For each win, a participant gets ₹10, but if he/she loses, he/she has to pay
₹5 to the school. If 99 participants played, calculate how much fund could the
 school have collected.
(iv) If the same amount of 5 has been decided for winning or losing the game,
then how much fund had been collected by school? (Number of participants =
99).
29. In a game of chance consisting of spinning an arrow which comes to rest
pointing at one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, ..., 20 (see Fig. 15.1) and these are equally
likely outcomes. Three persons Aarushi, Avni and Mira decide to play the game.
Aarushi wins ₹ 5000 if the arrow points at an even number. Mira wins ₹ 8000
when arrow points at an odd number and Avni wins ₹ 12,000 when arrow points
at a prime number.

(i) Total number of possible outcomes in the game is:

(a) 10 (b) 20 (c) 30 (d)40
(ii) What are the chances of Aarushi winning ₹5000?
(a) 50% (b) 60% (c) 40% (d) 25%
(iii) What are the chances of Mira winning *8000?
(a) 60% (b) 40% (c) 50% (d) 80%
(iv) What are the chances of Avni winning 12000?
(a) 50% (b) 60% (c) 80% (d) 40%
(v) What are the chances of Mira and Avni winning their prize money?
(a) 35% (b) 5% (c) 40% (d) 25%
30. There is a game of tossing of three coins. The entry fee in the game is 200.
Shikha takes entry into the game by paying the entry fee. The rules of the game
are: If by tossing three coins or one coin three times she gets one or two heads
entry fee is refunded. If she gets three heads, she receives double the amount
paid as entry fee. Otherwise, she loses the entry fee.
 (i) The total number of possible outcomes of the game, is
(a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 6 (d) 8
(ii) The probability that Shikha loses the entry fee, is
(a) 1

8
(b) 3

8
(c) (d)
3

4
1

(iii) What are the chances of getting ₹400?

(a) 50% (b) 25% (c) 12.5% (d) 75%
(iv) The probability that she gets back her entry fee, is
(a) 1

8
(b) 3

4
(c) 1

8
(d) 3

31. Computer-based learning (CBL) refers to any teaching methodology that makes
use of computers for information transmission. At an elementary school level,
computer applications can be used to display multimedia lesson. A survey was
done on 1000 elementary and secondary schools of Assam and they were
classified by the number of computers they had.

101 and
Number of Computers 1-10 11-20 21-50 51-100
more
Number of Schools 250 200 290 180 80

One school is chosen at random. Then:

(i) Find the probability that the school chosen at random has more than 100
computers.
(ii) Find the probability that the school chosen at random has 50 or fewer
computers.
(iii) Find the probability that the school chosen at random has not more than 20
computers.
(iv) Find the probability that the school chosen at random has 10 or less than 10
computers.
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