PODAR INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Subject: Mathematics Chapter : Probability

Std.: X Answer Scheme Practice Sheet

Section A: Multiple Choice Questions (1 mark each)

Q1. Which of the following cannot be the probability of an event?
(a) 0.5 (b) 5% 1 0.5
(c) (d)
0.5 1.4
Answer: option (c)
Q2. What is the probability that a number selected from the numbers (1, 2, 3,..........,15) is a
multiple of 4?
1 2 4 3
(a) (b) (c) (d)
5 15 5 4
Answer: option (a)
Q3. A bag has 3 red balls and 5 green balls. If we take a ball from the bag, then what is the
probability of getting red balls only?
(a) 3 (b) 8 3 8
(c) (d)
8 3
Answer: option (c)
Q4. If three coins are tossed simultaneously, then the probability of getting at least two tails, is
3 1 1 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
8 2 4 8
Answer: option (b)
Q5. The letters of the word SOCIETY are placed at random in a row. The probability of getting a
vowel is
1 2 5 3
(a) (b) (c) (d)
7 7 7 7
Answer: option (d)
Q6. In a drawer there are 5 black socks and 3 green socks. Two socks are picked randomly one
after the other without replacement. What is the possibility that both the socks are black?
5 5 5 5
(a) (b) (c) (d)
14 8 16 7
Answer: option (a)
Q7. What is the possibility of having 53 Thursdays in a non-leap year?
6 1 53 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
7 7 365 365
Answer: option (b)
Q8. When a die is cast with numbering on its faces, as shown, the ratio of
the probability of getting a composite number to the probability of
getting a prime number is _______.

(a) 2 : 3 (b) 3 : 2 (c) 1 : 3 (d) 1 : 2

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 Answer: option (a)
Q9. If three coins are tossed simultaneously, than the probability of getting at least two heads, is
1 3 1 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
4 8 2 8
Answer: option (c)
Q10. A library receives a shipment for a series of encyclopedias. The shipment includes volumes
31-40. These encyclopedias arrived in a box and are not ordered. One encyclopedia is picked at
random from the box without looking into it. What is the probability that the volume of the
encyclopedia picked is a multiple of 2 OR 5?
1 5 6 7
(a) (b) (c) (d)
10 10 10 10
Answer: option (c)
Q11. Two friends Dan and Sahej a playing a game of ludo. The probability of Dan winning the game
is 0.7. What is the probability that Dan NOT winning the game?
(a) 0.7 (b) 0.3 (c) 0.5 (d) Cant say
Answer: option (b)
Q12. A bag has 20 balls of different colours- Red, green and blue. The probability of a randomly
picked ball being a green ball is 2/5. How many green balls are there in the bag?
(a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 5 (d) 8
Answer: option (d)
Q13. A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled pack of 52 playing cards. Find the probability
of getting neither a red card nor a queen.
6 1 5 6
(a) (b) (c) (d)
7 7 13 13
Answer: option (d)
Q14. A bag contains 100 cards numbered 1 to 100. A card is drawn at random from the bag. What is
the probability that the number on the card is a perfect cube?
1 3 1 7
(a) (b) (c) (d)
20 50 25 100
Answer: option (c)
Q15. What is the probability of getting a black card from the deck of playing cards?
1 5 5 1
(a) (b) (c) (d)
2 52 26 26
Answer: option (a)
Q16. If 4 bulbs are there each of which can be defective or non-defective then what is the total
number of possible outcomes?
(a) 8 (b) 16 (c) 4 (d) 2
Answer: option (b)
Direction for questions 18 & 19: In question numbers 18 and 19, a statement of Assertion (A)
is followed by a statement of Reason (R). Choose the correct option.
Q17. Assertion (A): For a sure event the probability of occurrence is 1.
Reason(R): If E is an event, then 0≤ P(E) ≤ 1
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of
Assertion (A).
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true but Reason (R) is not the correct explanation
of Assertion (A).

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 (c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false.
(d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true.
Answer: option (b)
Q18. Assertion (A): The probability of getting a prime number when a die is thrown once is 2 .
3
Reason (R): Prime numbers on a die are 2, 3, 5.
(a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true and Reason (R) is the correct explanation of
Assertion (A).
(b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true but Reason (R) is not the correct explanation
of Assertion (A).
(c) Assertion (A) is true but Reason (R) is false.
(d) Assertion (A) is false but Reason (R) is true.
Answer: option (d)

Section B: Short Answer Questions [Type I]

Q19. Two coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting exactly one head.
Sol: 1/2
Q20. A letter is chosen randomly from the word TELEVISION. Find the probability that the letter is
E or a V.
Sol: 3/10
Q21. Tickets numbered from 1 to 20 are mixed together and a ticket is drawn at random. What is the
probability that the ticket has a number which is multiple of 3 or 7?
Sol: 2/5
Q22. In a single throw of a pair of dice, what is the probability of getting the sum a perfect square?
Sol: 7/36

Q23. A bag contains lemon flavored candies only. Malini takes out one candy without looking into
the bag. Find the probability that she takes out (a) An orange flavored candy? (b) a lemon
flavored candy ?
Sol: (a) 0 (b) 1
Q24. A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find the probability that the
card drawn is a card of spade or an ace.
Sol: 4/13
Q25. Two dice are thrown simultaneously. Find:
(a) P(an odd number as a sum)
(b) P(sum as a prime number)

Sol: (a) ½ (b) 5/12

Q26. An integer is chosen at random between 1 and 100. Find the probability that is
(a) divisible by 8 (b) not divisible by 8
Sol: (a) 6/49 (b) 43/49
Q27. A number is chosen at random from the numbers -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3. What will be the
probability that square of this number is less than or equal to 1?
Sol: 4/7

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 Section C: Short Answer Questions [Type II]
Q28. The probability of selecting a blue marble and a red marble from a bag containing red,blue and
green marbles is 1/3 and 1/5 respectively. If the bag contains 14 green marbles,then find:
(a) number of red marbles.
(b) total number of marbles in the bag.
Sol: (a) 60 (b) 30
Q29. Cards marked with the number 2 to 101 are placed in a box and mixed thoroughly. One card is
drawn from the box. Find the probability that the number on the card is:
(a) An even number
(b) A number less than 14
(c) A number is perfect square
Sol: (a)1/2 (b)13/100 (c) 9/100
Q30. Two different dice are thrown at the same time. Find the probability that the product of the
two numbers on the top of dice is :
(a) 6 (b) a perfect square (c) an even number (d) less than 16
(a) 1/9 (b) 2/9 c) ¾ (d) 25/36
Sol:
Q31. Two different dice are thrown at the same time. Find the probability that the sum of the two
numbers appearing on the top of dice is :
(a) 5 (b) 10 (c) less than or equal to 12
Sol: (a) 1/9 (b) 1/12 (c) 1
Q32. A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow which comes to
rest pointing at one of the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (see
figure) and these are equally likely outcomes. What is the
probability that it will point at:
(a) 8?
(b) an odd number?
(c) a number greater than 2?
(d) a number less than 9?
Sol: (a) 1/8 b) ½ (c) ¾ (d) 1
Q33. All the black face cards are removed from a pack of 52 playing cards. The remaining cards are
well shuffled and then a card is drawn at random. Find the probability of getting a
(a) Face card (b) red card (c) king

Sol: (a)3/23 (b) 10/23 (c) 1/23

Q34. The king, queen and jack of diamonds are removed from a pack of 52 cards are then the pack is
well-shuffled. A card is drawn from the remaining cards. Find the probability of getting a card
of:
(a) Diamonds (b) a Jack
Sol: (a) 10/49 (b) 3/49
Three coins are tossed at once. What is the probability of getting
Q35. Q
(a) Exactly two heads (b) at least two heads (c) at least two tails
Sol: (a) 3/8 (b) ½ (c) ½

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 Section D: Long Answer Questions
Q36. A bag contains 13 red cards , 13 black cards and 13 green cards. Each set of cards are
numbered 1 to 13. From these cards, a card is drawn at random. What is the probability that the
card drawn is a:
(a) green card?
(b) a card with an even number?
(c) a red or black card with a number which is a multiple of three?
Sol: (a)1/3, (b) 6/13 (c) 8/3
Q37. An experiment involves tossing three coins and counting the number of heads. Here are the
results after running the experiment 100 times.
Number of heads 0 1 2 3
Frequency 11 40 36 13

(a) How many times did 2 heads occur?

(b) How many times did fewer than 2 heads occur?
(c) Find the experimental probability of obtaining i fewer than 2 heads ii. At least one head
(a) 36 (b) 51 (c) i.fewer than 2 heads 51/100 ii. At least one head 89/100
Sol:
Q38. A child’s game has 8 triangles of which 3 are blue and the rest are red and 10 squares of which
6 are blue and rest are red. One piece is lost at random. Find the probability that it is a
(a)Triangle
(b) square
(c) square of blue colour
(d) triangle of red colour
Sol: (a) 4/9 (b) 5/9 (c) 1/3 (d) 5/18
Q39. A box contains cards bearing numbers from 6 to 70. If one card is drawn at random from the
box, find the probability that it bears
(a) A one-digit number (b) a number divisible by 5 (c) an odd number less than 30
(d) a composite number between 50 and 70
Sol: (a) 4/65 (b) 1/5 (c) 12/65 (d) 3/13
Q40. In the adjoining figure, a disc is shown on which a player
spins an arrow twice. The function a/b is formed, where a is
the number of sector on which arrow stops on the first spin
and b is the number of the sector in which the arrow stops on
second spin. On each spin, each sector has equal chance of
selection by the arrow. Find the probability that the
a
fraction  1 .
b
Sol: 5 /12

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 Section E: Case Study Based Questions
Case Study I
Eight ball: This is a game played on a pool table with 15 balls numbered 1 through 15 and a
cue ball that is solid white. Of the 15 numbered balls, 8 are a solid (nonwhite) color and
numbered 1 through 8, and seven are striped balls numbered 9 through 15.
The fifteen numbered pool balls (no cue ball) are placed in a large bowl and mixed, then one is
drawn out.
Based on the above information, answer the following questions

Q1. What is the probability that the drawn ball bears number 8?
Sol: 1/15
Q2. What is the probability that the drawn ball is a solid coloured and bears an even number.
Sol: 4/15
Q3. What is the probability that the ball drawn bears an even number?
OR
What is the probability that the ball drawn bears a number, which is a multiple of 3?
Sol: 7/15 OR 1/3
Case Study II
A, B, C, D and E are five friends. They prepared
some numbered cards with labelled from 11 to 60
and then they put all the number cards in the empty
box. In this game, every friend was asked to pick
the card randomly and after each draw, card was
replaced back in the box.

Q1.
Find the probability that the number on the drawn card is an odd number
Sol: 1/2
Q2. Find the probability that the number on the drawn card is a perfect square number
Sol: 2/25
Q3. Find the probability that the number on the drawn card is divisible by 5
OR
Find the probability that the number on the drawn card is a prime number less than 20
Sol: 1/5 OR 2/25
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