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8 Maths NCERT Solutions Chapter 5 3

This document contains examples of probability calculations for various scenarios involving spinning wheels, coin tosses, dice rolls, and drawing numbers or objects randomly. It asks the student to calculate probabilities for outcomes like: - Drawing the number 6 from slips with numbers 1-10 - Getting a prime number when rolling a die - Selecting a green sector on a spinning wheel with different colored sections The student provides step-by-step workings to show how to determine the total number of possible outcomes and favorable outcomes to calculate the probability for each scenario. The document emphasizes calculating probabilities as the ratio of favorable outcomes to total possible outcomes.

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8 Maths NCERT Solutions Chapter 5 3

This document contains examples of probability calculations for various scenarios involving spinning wheels, coin tosses, dice rolls, and drawing numbers or objects randomly. It asks the student to calculate probabilities for outcomes like: - Drawing the number 6 from slips with numbers 1-10 - Getting a prime number when rolling a die - Selecting a green sector on a spinning wheel with different colored sections The student provides step-by-step workings to show how to determine the total number of possible outcomes and favorable outcomes to calculate the probability for each scenario. The document emphasizes calculating probabilities as the ratio of favorable outcomes to total possible outcomes.

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(Class VIII)

Exercise 5.3
Question 1:
List the outcomes you can see in these experiments.
(a) Spinning a wheel

(b) Tossing two coins together

Answer 1:
(a) There are four letters A, B, C and D in a spinning wheel. So there are 4 outcomes.
(b) When two coins are tossed together. There are four possible outcomes HH, HT,
TH, TT.
(Here HT means head on first coin and tail on second coin and so on.)

Question 2:
When a die is thrown, list the outcomes of an event of getting:
(i) (a) a prime number
(b) not a prime number
(ii) (a) a number greater than 5
(b) a number not greater than 5

Answer 2:
(i)
(ii)

(a) Outcomes of event of getting a prime number are 2, 3 and 5.


(b) Outcomes of event of not getting a prime number are 1, 4 and 6.
(a) Outcomes of event of getting a number greater than 5 is 6.
(b) Outcomes of event of not getting a number greater than 5 are 1, 2, 3, 4
and 5.

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Question 3:
Find the:
(a) Probability of the pointer stopping on D in (Question 1 (a)).
(b) Probability of getting an ace from a well shuffled deck of 52 playing cards.
(c) Probability of getting a red apple. (See figure below)

Answer 3:
(a) In a spinning wheel, there are five pointers A, A, B, C, D. So there are five
outcomes. Pointer stops at D which is one outcome.
1
So the probability of the pointer stopping on D =
5

(b) There are 4 aces in a deck of 52 playing cards. So, there are four events of getting
an ace.
4 1
So, probability of getting an ace =

42 4
(c) Total number of apples = 7
Number of red apples = 4
4
Probability of getting red apple =
7

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Question 4:
Numbers 1 to 10 are written on ten separate slips (one number on one slip), kept in a box
and mixed well. One slip is chosen from the box without looking into it. What is the
probability of:
(i)
getting a number 6.
(ii)
getting a number less than 6.
(iii) getting a number greater than 6.
(iv) getting a 1-digit number.

Answer 4:
(i)

Outcome of getting a number 6 from ten separate slips is one.


1
Therefore, probability of getting a number 6 =
10
(ii)
Numbers less than 6 are 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 which are five. So there are 5
outcomes.
5 1
Therefore, probability of getting a number less than 6 =

10 2
(iii)
Number greater than 6 out of ten that are 7, 8, 9, 10. So there are 4 possible
outcomes.
4 2
Therefore, probability of getting a number greater than 6 =

10 5
(iv)
One digit numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 out of ten.
9
Therefore, probability of getting a 1-digit number =
10

Question 5:
If you have a spinning wheel with 3 green sectors, 1 blue sector and 1 red sector, what is
the probability of getting a green sector? What is the probability of getting a none-blue
sector?

Answer 5:
There are five sectors. Three sectors are green out of five sectors.
3
Therefore, probability of getting a green sector =
5
There is one blue sector out of five sectors.
Non-blue sectors = 5 1 = 4 sectors
4
Therefore, probability of getting a non-blue sector =
5
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Question 6:
Find the probability of the events given in Question 2.

Answer 6:
When a die is thrown, there are total six outcomes, i.e., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
(i)

(a) 2, 3, 5 are prime numbers. So there are 3 outcomes out of 6.


3 1
Therefore, probability of getting a prime number =
6 2
(b) 1, 4, 6 are not the prime numbers. So there are 3 outcomes out of 6.
3 1
Therefore, probability of getting a prime number =
6 2

(ii)

(a) Only 6 is greater than 5. So there is one outcome out of 6.

1
6
(b) Numbers not greater than 5 are 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. So there are 5 outcomes
out of 6.
5
Therefore, probability of not getting a number greater than 5 =
6
Therefore, probability of getting a number greater than 5 =

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