Amity International School, Noida

Probability
Class XI
Mathematics
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1. Three coins are tossed together. Find the probability of getting

(i) exactly two heads (ii) at least two heads (iii) at least one head
and one tail (Ans:3/8, 1/2, 3/4)

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

(Ans: 1/2 )

3. Tickets numbered from 1 to 20 are mixed up together and then a

ticket is drawn at random.
What is the probability that the ticket has a number which is a
multiple of 3 or 7 ? (Ans: 2/5)

4. A bag contains 6 red, 4 white and 8 blue balls. If three balls are
drawn at random, find the
probability that one is red, one is white and one is blue.
(Ans: 2/5 )

5. A bag contains 6 red marbles numbered 1 to 6 and 4 white

marbles numbered 12 to 15.
Find the probability that a marble drawn is (i) white (ii) white
and odd numbered
(iii) even numbered (iv) red or even numbered.
(Ans: 2/5, 1/5, 1/2 , 4/5 )

6. A class consists of 10 boys and 8 girls. Three students are

selected at random. What is the
probability that the selected group has (i) all boys (ii) all girls (iii)1
boy and 2 girls
(iv)at least one girl (v)at most one girl (Ans: 5/34, 7/102,
35/102 , 29/34, 10/17 )

7. A boy has three library tickets and 8 books of his interest in the library. Of these 8, he
does not want to borrow mathematics part II, unless mathematics part I is also
borrowed. In how many ways can he choose the three books to be borrowed.

8. A bag contains tickets numbered from 1 to 20. Two tickets are

drawn. Find the probability
(i) Both the tickets have prime numbers on them.
(Ans: 14/95, 4/19)
(ii) On one there is a prime number and on the other there is a
multiple of 4.

9. A card is drawn at random from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards.

Find the probability of
its being a spade or a king. (Ans:
4/13 )

10. In a single throw of two dice, find the probability that neither a
doublet nor a total of 9
will appear. (Ans:
13/18 )

11. A box contains 30 bolts and 40 nuts. Half of the bolts and half of
the nuts are rusted. If
two items are drawn at random, what is the probability that both
are rusted or both are
bolts? (Ans: 185/483
)

12. If three numbers are chosen from the numbers 1,2,3,4 ..., 21,
then what is the probability
that the numbers chosen are in A.P. ?
(Ans. 10/133)

13. A housewife buys a dozen eggs of which two turn out rotten. She
chooses four eggs to
scramble for breakfast. Find the chance that she chooses
(i) all good eggs (ii) three good and one bad (iii) two good
and two bad
(iv) atleast one bad egg (iv) "Diet plays an important role for a
healthy lifestyle." Comment
(Ans. (i) 14/33 (ii) 16/33 (iii) 1/11
(iv) 19/33)

14. If A and B are mutually exclusive events associated with a

random experiment such that
P(A) = 0.4 and P(B)= 0.5, then find: (i) P( A B) (ii)
P ( A' B ' )
(iii) P ( A' B ) (iv) P( A B' ) (Ans:0.9, 0.1,
0.5, 0.4 )
15. A bag contains 30 tickets, numbered 1 to 30. Five tickets are
drawn at random an
arranged in ascending order. Find the probability that the third
number is 20. ( 285/5278)

16. A hockey match is played from 3 pm to 5 pm. A man arrives late

for the match. What is
the Probability that he misses the only goal of the match which is
scored at the 20th minute
of the match ? "sports play in our life to maintain a healthy lifestyle."
Comment. (Ans. 5/6)

17. Three dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability of

getting a total of atleast 6.
(Ans.
103/108)
18. There are 6 History, 5 Maths and 4 Logic books arranged on a
shelf. Find the probability
that books on the same subject are kept together. How does reading
enhances the
personality of a person ?
(Ans. 1/105105)

19. In a certain city, the probability of not reading the morning

newspaper by the residents
is 1/2 and that of not reading the evening newspaper is 2/5 . The
probability of reading both
the newspapers is 1/5. Find the probability that a resident reads
either the morning or
evening or both the papers. How does reading a newspaper daily
effects the personality of a
person ? (Ans. 9/10)

20. For a post, 3 persons A, B and C appear in the interview. The

probability of A being
selected is twice that of B and the probability of B being selected is
thrice that of C. If the
post is filled, what are the probabilities of A, B and C being
selected ? ( Ans. 3/5, 3/10, 1/10)

21. The letters of the word SOCIETY are placed at random in a row.
What is the probability
that the 3 vowels come together ?
(Ans. 1/7)
22. A 5 digit number is formed from the digits 1,2,3,4,5,7 without
repetition. Find the
probability that the number is divisible by 4 ?
(Ans. 1/6)