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TOPICAL TEST 7: Probability

PAPER 1

1 A dice is tossed once. Find the probability that an odd 9 A fair dice is tossed. Find the probability of getting an odd
number will appear. number or 4.
[3 marks] [3 marks]

2 A bag contains 4 red balls, 5 yellow balls and 6 blue balls. 10 A fair coin and a dice are thrown simultaneously. Find the
If a ball is taken out from the bag randomly, find the probability that the head or odd number will appear.
probability that the ball chosen is [3 marks]
(a) yellow,
(b) not a blue ball.
[4 marks] 11 A bag contains 3 yellow balls, 3 red balls and 4 black balls.
A ball is drawn at random from the bag. Find the
probability of getting a yellow ball or a red ball.
3 Eight pieces of cards as the following are put into a box. [3 marks]

P A S S W O R D
12 Lily has eight puppies. All are black except three which are
If a card is taken out of the box, find the probability that the brown and two which are white. A puppy is selected at
card is the letter ‘S’. random. What is the probability that the puppy is black or
[3 marks] white?
[3 marks]

4 A box contains ten pieces of cards numbered 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,

14, 16, 20, 27 and 33. Find the probability that a card
selected is an even number. 13 A card is randomly taken from a box of cards with the
[2 marks] following letters.
A, B, T, A, N, A, T, R, A
Find the probability that the card is A or T.
5 A bag contains 10 green candies, 3 black candies and 7 red
[3 marks]
candies. Find the probability a candy chosen is green.
[2 marks]
14 A box contains 10 red cards and 6 yellow cards. A single
card is chosen at random. Calculate the probability that the
6 A box contains ten pieces of cards numbered 2, 3, 5, 7, 9,
card chosen is red.
11, 15, 16, 18 and 20. Ahmad takes out one card randomly.
[3 marks]
Find the probability that the card bears an odd number or a
prime number.
[4 marks]
15 There are 50 students in a class. 35 of them like swimming, 25 of
them like cycling and 15 students like both. If one student is
chosen at random, what is the probability that the student likes
7 There are 30 students in a class. 22 of them like to read
swimming or cycling?
story books. 18 of them like to read science books and 10 of
[4 marks]
them like both kinds of books. If one student is chosen
randomly, calculate the probability that the student like to
read story books and science books.
16 A school has four hostels, A, B, C and D. There are 25 students in
[3 marks]
a class where 10 of them stay in hostel A, 5 in hostel B, 8 in hostel
C and 2 in hostel D. A student is randomly chosen from the class.
Find the probability that the student is from hostel A or D.
8 John chooses a number from a set of numbers S = {x: 10 < x
[3 marks]
< 30, x is odd number}. Calculate the probability that the
number chosen is a multiple of 3 and 5.
[4 marks]
17 A bag contains 5 white balls and 10 black balls. A ball is
drawn from the bag and is returned into the bag. Then the
second ball is drawn. Find the probability that the first ball
is white and the second ball is black.
[4 marks]

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18 The probabilities that it will rain on Monday and on 22 Hotel A has 3 lifts. The probability that a lift breaks down at hotel A
Tuesday are 3 and 2 respectively. Find the probability is 1 . Find the probability that all three lifts will break down at the
4 5 100
that it will rain on both days. same time.
[3 marks] [3 marks]
23 The probability of picking a rotten durian from a lorry carrying
19 The probabilities that Alex and David will win a badminton
durians is 2 . Find the probability of picking 3 rotten durians at the
match are 3 and 1 respectively. Find the probability that 5
5 6 same time from the lorry.
both of them will win. [4 marks]
[3 marks]

20 A, B and C fire one shot each at a target. The probabilities that A, B 24 A man travels to work by train for three days. In one day,
the probability that the train is late is 0.1. Find the
and C will hit the target are 1 , 3 and 2 respectively. Calculate the probability that his train to work is late for three days.
5 4 3
probability that all three hit the target in the first shot. [3 marks]
[3 marks]
25 The probabilities that Joseph wins in science quiz and
21 Three families independently make visits to a tourist spot. The mathematics quiz are 1 and 1 respectively. Find the probability
5 7
probabilities of the three families going on a given morning are 2 , that Joseph wins in both quizzes.
3
. [3 marks]
4 and 2 . Find the probability that all of them go in the same
6 4
morning.
[3 marks]

PAPER 2
1 Seven cards labeled as the following are put into a box. 5 Given A = {x: 5 < x < 35, x is an odd number}.
Determine the probability that a number chosen from A is a
2 3 4 7 12 18 29 (a) multiple of 3 or multiple of 5,
(b) multiple of 3 and multiple of 5.
A card is drawn at random from the box. Find the [7 marks]
probability that the card chosen is
(a) a prime number,
(b) an odd number,
(c) a two-digit number. 6 A box contains 4 white balls, 3 blue balls and 6 black
[6 marks] balls. A ball is selected at random. Find the probability
that the ball is
(a) white or blue,
2 A bag contains labeled cards from 0 to 10. Muthu (b) white or black.
randomly draws a card from the bag. Find the probability [6 marks]
that the card drawn is
(a) an even number,
(b) an odd number.
[6 marks] 7 A bag contains six red discs, four white discs and two
blue discs. A disc is randomly chosen from the bag. The
probability that the disc chosen is
3 Chong bought 10 yellow candies, 2 red candies and 6 (a) blue,
green candies. Find the probability that Chong will eat (b) not white,
(a) a red candy, (c) white or red.
(b) a green candy. [9 marks]
[6 marks]

4 A box contains ten cards bearing numbers 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 8 A bag contains 30 balls. That are numbered 1, 2, 3, …, 30.
11, 14, 15, 19 and 20. Lim takes out one card at random. A ball is drawn at random. Find the probability that the
Find the probability that the card bears number on the ball is
(a) an odd number or a prime number, (a) divisible by 3,
(b) an odd number that is also a prime number. (b) not divisible by 8,
[6 marks] (c) less than 15.
[9 marks]

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 9 (a) The probability that a student in a school is a male is marble is taken out randomly from each bag, find the
0.460. If the total number of the students in the school probability that
is 1050, how many students are female? (a) both marbles are green,
(b) In a company, 55% at them are full-time employees (b) the marble from bag A is green and marble from bag B
and 54 are part-time employees. Find the total number is yellow.
of employees in the company. [6 marks]
[8 marks]
13 In a soccer match between team A and team B, the
probability that team A wins is 0.2 and the probability that
team B wins is 0.5 based on the past year’s results.
10 Sam takes two tests for Additional Mathematics. The Calculate the probability
(a) the match ends with a draw,
probability that he passes the first test is 3 . If he passed
5 (b) team A or team B wins.
the first test, the probability of passing the second test [7 marks]
is 4 . But if he fails the first test, then the probability of
5
14 Given the sets
passing the second test goes down to 2 . Calculate the P = {3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30}
5
probability that A = {15, 18, 21}
(a) he passes both tests at the first attempt, B = {3, 6, 9, 12}
(b) he fails the first test but passes the second test. C = {24, 27, 30}
[6 marks] Find the probability that number chosen randomly from
set P is in
(a) set A or set B,
(b) set B or set C.
11 The probability of a mother in a family giving birth to a [6 marks]

baby girl is 4 . If a family has 3 children, find the

9
probability that 15 The probability of three men making visits to a museum
(a) all 3 of them are girls, in a given week is 2 , 5 and 1 . Find the probability that,
(b) 2 of them are girls. 3 6 4
[6 marks] (a) all the three men visit in the same week,
(b) exactly two men visit in the same week.
[6 marks]
12 Bag A contains 4 green marbles and 6 yellow marbles.
Bag B contains 7 green marbles and 9 yellow marbles. If a

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