1 Marks Questions

1. Three coins are tossed simultaneously list the sample space for the event.

Ans. S = [HHH, HHT, HTH, THH, HTT, TTH, THT, TTT]

2. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the prob. of getting doublet.

Ans. [S be the sample space]

let E be the event of getting doublet

3. 20 cards are numbered from 1 to 20. One card is then drawn at random. What is the prob. of a prime no.

Ans. Let S be the sample space and E be the event of prime no.

4. If is the prob. that an event will happen, what is the prob. that it will not happen?

Ans. Let E be the event

5. If A and B are two mutually exclusive events such that

P (A) and

P (B) find P (A or B)

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6. If E and F are events such that P(E)P(F)and P(E and F)find P(not E and not F)

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7. A letter is chosen at random from the word ‘ASSASSINATION’. Find the prob. that letter is a consonant.

Ans. P (consonant)

8. There are four men and six women on the city council. If one council member is selected for a committee at random, how likely is it that at it is a woman?

Ans. P (a woman member is selected)

9. 4 cards are drawn from a well snuffled deck of 52 cards what is the prob. of obtaining 3 diamonds and one spade.

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10. Describe the sample space. A coin is tossed and a die is thrown.

Ans. {H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6,T1,T2,T3,T4,T5,T6}

11. We wish to choose one child of 2 boys and 3 girls. A coin is tossed. If it comes up heads, a boy is chosen, otherwise a girl is chosen. Describe the sample space.

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12. What is the chance that a leap year, selected at random, will contain 53 Sundays?

Ans. A leap year consists of 366 days and therefore 52 complete weeks and two days over. These two days may be (Sunday, Monday), (Monday, Tuesday),(Tuesday, Wednesday), (Wednesday, Thursday), (Thursday, Friday), (Friday, Saturday), or (Saturday, Sunday)

P (a leap year has 53 Sunday) =

13. If P (A) = 0.6, P(B) =0.4 and P (AB) = 0, then the events are?

Ans. Exclusive and exhaustive

14. In general the prob. of an event lie between?

Ans. 0 and 1.

15. A and B are two mutually exclusive events of an experiment. If P (not A) = 0.65, P (AB) = 0.65 and P (B) = K, find K

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16. A box contains 1 white and 3 identical black balls. Two balls are drawn at random in succession without replacement. Write the sample space for this experiment.

Ans. S = {WB, BW, BB}

17. Three coins are tossed once. Find the probability at most two heads.

Ans. S = {HHH, HHT, HTH, THH, HTT, THT, TTH, TTT}

E = HHT, THH, HTH, HTT, THT, TTH, TTT

P (E)

18. One card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards, find the probability that drawn card is either red or king.

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19. Five cards are drawn from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find the probability that all the five cards are hearts.

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20. From a deck of 52 cards four cards are accidently dropped. Find the chance that the missing cards should be one from each type.

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21. In a random sampling three items are selected from a lot. Each item is tested and classified as defective (D) or non – defective (H). Write the sample space.

Ans. S ={DDD, DDN, DND, NDD, DNN, NDN, NND, NNN}

22. Let be sample space. Is the probability to outcome valid.

Ans. Yes,

23. The odds in favour of an event are 3:5, find the probability of occurrence of this event.

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24. What is the probability that an ordinary year has 53 Sundays?

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25. If odds against an event be 7:9, find the probability of non-occurrence of this event.

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4 Marks Questions

1. A coin is tossed three times consider the following event A : No head appears, B : Exactly one head appears and C : At least two heads appears do they form a set of mutually exclusive and exhaustive events.

Ans. S = {HHH, HHT, HTH, THH, HTT, THT, TTH, TTT}

A = {TTT}, B = {HTT, THT, TTH}, C = {HHT, HTH, THH, HHH}

Therefore A, B and C are exhaustive events.

Also disjoint i.e. they are mutually exclusive.

2. A and B are events such that P (A) = 0.42, P (B) = 0.48, and P (A and B) = 0.16 determine (i) P (not A) (ii) P (not B) (iii) P (A or B)

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3. Find the prob. that when a hand of 7 cards is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards, it contains (i) all king (ii) 3 kings (iii) at least 3 kings

Ans. P (all king)

P (3 king)

P (atleast 3 king) = p (3 king) + p (4 king)

4. From a group of 2 boys and 3 girls, two children are selected at random. Describes the sample space associated with

(i) : both the selected children are boys

(ii) : at least one selected child is a boy

(iii) : one boy and one girl is selected

(iv) : both the selected children are girls

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5. A book contains 100 pages. A page is chosen at random. What is the chance that the sum of the digit on the page is equal to9

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6. A pack of 50 tickets numbered 1 to 50 is shuffled and the two tickets are drawn find the prob.

(i) Both the ticket drawn bear prime no.

(ii) Neither of the tickets drawn bear prime no.

Ans. Prime no. from 1 to 50 are

(i) Two ticket out of fifty can be drawn in

(ii) P (neither of the tickets bear prime no.)

7. In a class XI of a school 40% of the students study mathematics and 30% study biology. 10% of the class study both mathematics and Biology. If a student is selected at random from the class, find the prob. that he will be studying mathematics or biology.

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8. A hockey match is played from 3 pm to 5 pm. A man arrives late for the match what is the prob. that he misses the only goal of the match which is scored at the 20^th minute of the match?

Ans. The man can arrive any time between 3 to 5 pm so that time = 2hr =120 minutes

He see goal of he arrives within first 20 minutes

P (he see the goal)

P (not see the goal)

9. In a single throw of two dice, find the prob. that neither a doublet nor a total of 10 will appear.

Ans. Let S be the sample space and are event of doublet, and event of getting a total of 10 respectively

10. The prob. that a person will get an electrification contract is and the prob. that he will not get a plumbing contract is . If the prob. of getting at least one contract is , what is the prob. that he will get both?

Ans. Let A = Event of getting an electrification contract

B = Event of getting a plumbing contract

Req. prop

11. In a town of 6000 people 1200, are over 50 yr. old and 2000 are females. It is known that 30% of the females are over 50 yr. what is the prob. that a randomly chosen individual from the town is either female or over 50 yr.

Ans. Event of person being a female

Event of person being 50 yr. old

12. In a class of 60 students 30 opted for NCC, 32 opted for NSS, 24 opted for both NCC and NSS. If one of these students is selected at random find the probability that

(i). The student opted for NCC or NSS

(ii). The student has opted neither NCC nor NSS.

(iii). The student has opted NSS but not NCC.

Ans. A student opted for NCC

B student opted for NSS

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

13. Two students Anil and Ashima appeared in an examination. The probability That Anil will qualify the examination is 0.05 and that Ashima will qualify the examination is 0.10. the probability that both will qualify the examination is 0.02 find the probability that

(a). Both Anil and Ashima will qualify the examination

(b). At least one of them will not qualify the examination and

(c). Only one of them will qualify the examination.

Ans. Let E and F denote the event that Anil and Ashima will qualify the examination respectively P (E) = 0.05, P (F) = 0.10, P (EF) = 0.02

(a)

(b) (at least one of them will not quality) = 1-P(both of them will quality)

=1-0.02

= 0.98

(c) P (only one of them will quality) =

14. Out of 100 students, two sections of 40 and 60 are formed. If you and your friend are among the 100 students what is the probability that

(a) You both enter the same section?

(b) You both enter the different section?

Ans. Two sections of 40 and 60 can be formed out of 100 in or ways

(a) P (both enter the same section)

=

(b) req. probability

=

15. There are three mutually exclusive and exhaustive events and . The odds are 8 : 3 against and 2 : 5 in favors of find the odd against .

Ans. Odds against E₁ are 8:3

So odds in favors of E₁ are 3:8

Odds againstare

16. If an entrance test that is graded on the basis of two examinations, the probability of a randomly chosen student passing the first examination is 0.8 and the probability of passing the second examination is 0.7. The probability of passing at least one of them is 0.95. What is the probability of passing both?

Ans. A : student passes first examination

B : student passes Second examination

P (A) = 0.8, P (B) = 0.7

P (AB) = 0.95

P (AB) =?

P (AB) = P (A) + P (B) - P (AB)

0.95 = 0.8 + 0.7 - P (AB)

0.55 = P (AB).

17. One card is drawn from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards. If each out come is equally likely calculate the probability that the card will be.

(i) a diamond (ii) Not an ace (iii) A black card (iv) Not a diamond.

Ans. (i) req. probability

(ii)req. probability

(iii) req. probability

(iv)req. probability

18. In a lottery, a person chooses six different natural no. at random from 1 to 20 and if these six no. match with six no. already fixed by the lottery committee, he wins the prize. What is the probability of winning the prize in the game?

Ans. Out of 20, a person can choose 6 natural no. In ways out of these there is only one choice which will match the six no. already by the committee

P (The person wins the prize)

=

19. From the employees of a company, 5 persons are elected to represent them in the managing committee of the company.

A person is selected at random from this group as a spoke person what is the probability the a spoke person will be either male or over 35 yr.

Ans. A: spoke person is a male

B: spoke person is over 35 yr.

20.A die has two faces each with no. 1 three faces each with no. 2 and one face with no. 3 if the die is rolled once, determine

(i) P (2) (ii) P (1 or 3) (iii) P(not 3)

Ans. A: getting a face with no. 1

B: getting a face with no. 2

C: getting a face with no. 3

(i)

(ii)

(iii)

21. Find the probability that in a random arrangement of the letters of the word UNIVERSITY the two I’s come together.

Ans. Total no. of words which can be formed by the letters of the word UNIVERSITY is regarding 2I’S as one letter no. of ways of arrangement in which both I’S are together = 9!

Req. probability

22. A bag contains 50 tickets no. 1,2,3,……,50 of which five are drawn at random and arranges in ascending order of magnitude find the probability that = 30

Ans. Five tickets out of 50 can be drawn in ways

Since

And = 30

i.e and should come from tickets no to 1 to 29 and this may happen in ways.

Remaining two i.e. should Come from 20 tickets no. from 31 to 50 in ways

Favorable case =

Req. probability