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Date : 10-06-2024 STD 10 Maths Total Marks : 83

Probablility practice test

Section A

* Fill in the blanks with correct alternative. [1 Marks Each] [5]

1. Probability of an event E + Probability of the event not E = ________.
2. The probability of an event that cannot happen is ________. Such an event is called ________.
3. The probability of an event that is certain to happen is ________. Such an event is called
________.
4. The sum of the probabilities of all the elementary events of an experiment is ________.
5. The probability of an event is greater than or equal to ________ and less than or equal to
________.

* State whether the following sentences are True or False. [1 Marks Each] [5]
6. The probability is
1
to get 50 marks in 100 marks question paper.
2

7. 0 ≤ P (E) ≤ 1 (where E is an event)

8. If P (A) =
4
then P (A
¯
) =
5

5 4

9. The probability is 1 of the event "The Sun rises in the East'.

10. If three balanced coin tossed once then total outcomes get 8

* Answer the following questions in one sentence. [1 Marks Each] [12]

11. A player attempts to shoot a basketball. She/he shoots or misses the shot. Is
this experiment has an equally likely outcome? Explain.
12. A trial is made to answer a true-false question. The answer is right or wrong. Is this
experiment has an equally likely outcome? Explain.
13. A baby is born. It is a boy or a girl. Is this experiment has an equally likely
outcome? Explain.
14. If P(E) = 0.05, what is the probability of not E?
15. Why is tossing a coin considered to be a fair way of deciding which team should get the
ball at the beginning of a football game?
16. It is given that in a group of 3 students, the probability of 2 students not having the same
birthday is 0.992. What is the probability that the 2 students have the same birthday?
17. Two players, Sangeeta and Reshma, play a tennis match. It is known that the probability
of Sangeeta winning the match is 0.62. What is the probability of Reshma winning the
match?
18.

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 A missing helicopter is reported to have crashed somewhere in the rectangular region in
Fig. What is the probability that it is crashed inside the lake shown in the figure?

19. A driver attempts to start a car. The car starts or does not start, is this experiment has an
equally likely outcome? Explain.
20. A bag contains lemon flavoured candies only. Malini takes out one candy without looking
into the bag. What is the probability that she takes out
1. an orange flavoured candy?
2. a lemon flavoured candy?
21. Gopi buys a fish from a shop for his aquarium. The shopkeeper takes out one fish at
random from a tank containing 5 male fish and 8 female fish. What is the probability
that the fish taken out is a male fish?

22. 12 defective pens are accidentally mixed with 132 good ones. It is not possible to just look
at a pen and tell whether or not it is defective. One pen is taken out at random from this
lot. Determine the probability that the pen taken out is a good one.

Section B

* Given section consists of questions of 2 marks each. [40]

23. Suppose we throw a die once.
1. What is the probability of getting a number greater than 4?
2. What is the probability of getting a number less than or equal to 4?
24. One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Calculate the probability that the
card will
1. be an ace,
2. not be an ace.
25. Savita and Hamida are friends. What is the probability that both will have
1. different birthdays?

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 2. the same birthday? (ignoring a leap year)
26. There are 40 students in class X of a school of whom 25 are girls and 15 are boys. The class
teacher has to select one student as a class representative. He writes the name of each
student on a separate card, the cards being identical. Then she puts cards in a bag and
stirs them thoroughly. She then draws one card from the bag. What is the probability that
the name written on the card is the name of
1. a girl?
2. a boy?
27. A carton consists of 100 shirts of which 88 are good, 8 have minor defects and 4 have
major defects. Jimmy, a trader, will only accept the shirts which are good, but Sujatha,
another trader, will only reject the shirts which have major defects. One shirt is drawn at
random from the carton. What is the probability that
1. it is acceptable to Jimmy?
2. it is acceptable to Sujatha?
28. A bag contains 3 red balls and 5 black balls. A ball is drawn at random from the bag. What
is the probability that the ball drawn is
1. red ?
2. not red ?
29. Five cards—the ten, jack, queen, king and ace of diamonds, are well-shuffled with their
face downwards. One card is then picked up at random.
1. What is the probability that the card is the queen?
2. If the queen is drawn and put aside, what is the probability that the second card
picked up is
1. an ace?
2. a queen?
30. 1. A lot of 20 bulbs contain 4 defective ones. One bulb is drawn at random from the
lot. What is the probability that this bulb is defective?
2. Suppose the bulb drawn in (i) is not defective and is not replaced. Now one bulb
is drawn at random from the rest. What is the probability that this bulb is not
defective?
31. A child has a die whose 6 faces show the letters given below:

The die is thrown once. What is the probability of getting (i) A, (ii) D?
32. Suppose you drop a die at random on the rectangular region shown in Figure. What is the
probability that it will land inside the circle with diameter 1m?

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33. A lot consists of 144 ball pens of which 20 are defective and the others are good. Nuri will
buy a pen if it is good, but will not buy if it is defective. The shopkeeper draws one pen at
random and gives it to her. What is the probability that
1. she will buy it?
2. she will not buy it?
34. A game consists of tossing a one-rupee coin 3 times and noting its outcome each time.
Hanif wins if all the tosses give the same result i.e., three heads or three tails and loses
otherwise. Calculate the probability that Hanif will lose the game.
35. A die is thrown twice. What is the probability that:
1. 5 will not come up either time?
2. 5 will come up at least once?
[Hint: Throwing a die twice and throwing two dice simultaneously are treated as the same
experiment]
36. Is the given statement correct or not correct?
If two coins are tossed simultaneously there are three possible outcomes- two heads, two
tails or one of each. Therefore, for each of these outcomes, the probability is 1
.
3

37. Is the given statement correct or not correct?

If a die is thrown, there are two possible outcomes- an odd number or an even number.
Therefore, the probability of getting an odd number is 1

2
.

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

39. A bag contains a red ball, a blue ball and a yellow ball, all the balls being of the same size.
Kritika takes out a ball from the bag without looking into it. What is the probability that
she takes out the
1. yellow ball?
2. red ball?
3. blue ball?
40. A box contains 3 blue, 2 white, and 4 red marbles. If a marble is drawn at random from
the box, what is the probability that it will be
1. white?
2. blue?
3. red?
41. A box contains 90 discs which are numbered from 1 to 90. If one disc is drawn at random
from the box, find the probability that it bears
1. a two-digit number
2. a perfect square number
3. a number divisible by 5.
42. In a musical chair game, the person playing the music has been advised to stop playing
the music at any time within 2 minutes after she starts playing. What is the probability that
the music will stop within the first half-minute after starting?

Section C

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* Given section consists of questions of 3 marks each. [21]
43. One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of getting
i. a king of red colour
ii. a face card
iii. a red face card
iv. the jack of hearts
v. a spade
vi. the queen of diamonds
44. Harpreet tosses two different coins simultaneously (say, one is of ₹ 1 and other of ₹ 2).
What is the probability that he gets at least one head?
45. Two dice, one blue and one grey are thrown at the same time. Write down all the possible
outcomes. What is the probability that the sum of the two numbers appearing on the top
of the dice is
i. 8?
ii. 13?
iii. less than or equal to 12?
46. A box contains 5 red marbles, 8 white marbles and 4 green marbles. One marble is taken
out of the box at random. What is the probability that the marble taken out will be
i. red ?
ii. white ?
iii. not green ?
47. A piggy bank contains hundred 50 p coins, fifty ₹ 1 coins, twenty ₹ 2 coins and ten ₹ 5
coins. If it is equally likely that one of the coins will fall out when the bank is turned upside
down, what is the probability that the coin
i. will be a 50 p coin?
ii. will not be a ₹ 5 coin?
48. A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow which comes to rest pointing at one of
the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (see figure) and these are equally likely outcomes. What is
the probability that it will point at:

i. 8?
ii. an odd number?
iii. a number greater than 2?
iv. a number less than 9?
49. A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting
i. a prime number;
ii. a number lying between 2 and 6
iii. an odd number.
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