Practice

Probability
1. What is the probability of throwing a 6 with two dice?
2. What is the probability of throwing a 12 with three dice?
3. Three dice are thrown. What is the probability that not all the three dice show the same
number?
4. Two dice are thrown. What is the probability that the product of the numbers on both dice
is een?
!. " letter is chosen at random from the word P#$%"%&'&T(. What is the probability that
the letter chosen is neither )%* nor )&*?
6. " two+digit number less than 4, is chosen at random. What is the probability that it will
not be a prime number?
-. There are 2, blac. balls and x white balls in a bag. " ball is drawn at random.
/a0 &f the probability of drawing a blac. ball is 2,12 find the alue of x.
/b0 3ow many blac. balls should be added in the bag so that the probability of drawing a
blac. ball is 4?
5. 1,, households in a certain district in a town were as.ed what brand of tea they bought.
The surey shown that 3- respondents bought brand X tea. &f there are 2!,, households in
the town2 estimate the number of households in the town that buy brand X tea.
6. When a die is thrown 1,, times2 what is the e7pected fre8uency of
/a0 a number less than ! showing2
/b0 a number more than 3 showing2
/c0 a number which is not a factor of 6 showing?
1,. /i0 " solid regular triangular pyramid /tetrahedron0 has the numbers 12 22 3 and 4 mar.ed
on its four faces. &f it is thrown2 what is the probability that
/a0 the face numbered 4 lands downwards2
/b0 the sum of the three faces showing is an een number?
/ii0 &f two tetrahedrons li.e the one aboe are thrown together2 what is the probability that
/a0 the sum of the numbers facing downwards is een2
/b0 the sum of the numbers facing downwards is not a prime number?
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11. Three coins are tossed together.
/a0 What is the probability of obtaining three tails?
/b0 What is the probability of obtaining at least one head?
12. When a particular die is thrown2 the probability of obtaining any score is proportional to
the score. 9ind the probability of scoring more than 3.
13. There are 5, marbles in a bag. The probability of choosing a red marble and a blue
marble are !:16 and ; respectiely. <alculate the number of marbles in the bag which are
neither red nor blue.
14. P and Q are the midpoints of the ad=acent sides of s8uare ABCD. " point is chosen at
random in the s8uare. <alculate the probability that it lies in the shaded region.
1!. " bag contains 6, marbles. 4, of them are blac. and the rest are white. " marble is
chosen at random. What is the probability of drawing
/a0 a blac. marble2
/b0 a white marble2
/c0 a yellow marble2
/d0 either a white marble or a blac. marble?
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