PROBABILITY WORKSHEET 1. Calculate A bag contains 5 white and 10 red balls. Three balls are taken out at random.
Find the probability that all three balls are red. 2. The probability that a company M.D. will travel by ship is 2/3 and that he will travel by plane is 1/5. Find the probability of his travelling by ship or plane. 3. Find the probability that the selected book has less than 190 pages and is either a book on botany or on zoology. 4. A pair of dice is rolled. If the sum of 9 has appeared. Find the probability that one of the die shows 3. 5. Direction: In the venn diagram ,the cardinal numbers of the different sets are given
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6. Direction: Bag I contains 5 red balls. Bag II contains 4 red balls and 7 black balls. I) Find the probability that both are red. ii) Find the probability that one is red and one is black iii) Find the probability that both are black when one ball is drawn from each bag 7. Direction: From a group of 8, 5 girls and 3 ladies, three children are selected at random. i) Calculate the probability that the selected group contain no ladies ii) Calculate the probability that the selected group contain only one lady iii) Calculate the probability that the selected group contain only one particular lady iv) Calculate the probability that the selected group contain at least one lady v) Calculate the probabilities that the selected groups contains more ladies than girl 8. Direction :A bag contain 6 red and 9 blue balls are drawn at random .find the probability for the first draw to give 4 red and the second draw to give 4 blue balls in I) The case that the balls are replaced before the second draw ii) The case that the balls are not replaced before the second draw
PROBABILITY WORKSHEET 9. Find the probability of getting exactly one head in six tosses of a coin 10. Direction: The first twelve alphabets are written down at random .what is the probability that i) There are four letters between A and B ii) A and B are written down side by side
11. Two friends A and B have equal number of daughters. There are 3 tickets which are to be distributed among the daughters of A and B. The probability that all the tickets go to the daughter of A is 1/ 20, find how many daughters do each of them have? 12. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the probability of obtaining a total score of seven. 13. 12 tokens are numbered from 1 12. Six tokens are selected at random one at a time with replacement. What is the probability that a number between 1 and 8 appears in all the picks. 14. Find the probability of drawing all four cards of diamond from a pack of 52 cards. 15. From a bag containing 8 red and 4 blue balls, two balls are drawn at random. Fins the probability that both the balls are of the same color (all balls are considered to be different). 16. The probability that A will live 20 more years is 1/ 2 and the probability that his wife will live 20 more years is 1/3. Then find the probability that neither will be alive in 20 years. 17. A pack of card contains 4 Aces, 4 Kings, 4 Queens and 4 Jacks. Two cards are drawn at random. Find the probability that atleast one of them is an ace. 18. The letters of the word Allahabad are arranged at random. Find the probability that in the word so formed, all similar letters are found together. 19. The probability that a student will attend an unannounced test given by the teacher is 1/3. If the student is absent twice, find the probability that he will miss atleast one test. 20. 10 students are selected at random in a row. Find the probability that two particular students are not seated side by side. 21. Find the probability of an event A if the odds in favor are 3:2. 22. A card is drawn from a pack of 52 cards. What is the probability that the card drawn is either a red card or a king? 23. From a pack of 52 cards, one card is drawn at random. What is the probability that the card drawn is a ten or a spade? 24. From a pack of cards, two cards are drawn together at random. What is the probability of both the cards being kings? 25. Two cards are drawn together from a pack of cards. The probability that one is a spade and one is a heart is?
PROBABILITY WORKSHEET 26. Two cards are drawn from a pack of 52 cards. The probability that either both are red or both are kings is? 27. A box contains 5 green, 4 yellow and 3 white marbles. Three marbles are drawn at random. What is the probability that both of them are not of the same color? 28. A bag contains 6 white and 4 red balls. Three balls are drawn at random. What is the probability that one of the balls is red and the other is white? 29. A bag contains 2 red, 3 green, and 2 blue balls. Two balls are drawn at random. What is the probability that none of the balls drawn is blue? 30. A box contains 10 black and 10 white balls. The probability of drawing 2 balls of the same color is? 31. A box contains 20 electric blubs, out of which 4 are defective. Two bulbs are chosen at random from this box. The probability that atleast one of them is defective is? 32. A man and his wife appear in an interview for two vacancies in the same post. The probability of the husbands selection is 1/7 and the probability of the wifes selection is 1/5. What is the probability that only one of them is selected?
ANSWERS: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 24/91 13/15 1/2 3/5, , 1/5, 9/10, 2/5 5/22 47/88 21/88 5/28 15/28 5/28 23/28 2/7 6/5915 3/715 1/64 7/66 1/6 3 1/6 (2/3)6 13C4 / 52C4 17/33 1/3 9/20 16/21 5/9
PROBABILITY WORKSHEET 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 4/5 3/5 4/13 1/221 13/102 55/221 41/44 2/91 1/2 10/21 9/19 7/19 2/7
