COUNTRYSIDE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Grade 10. Mathematics (Worksheet)
1. Probability
Solve the following :
1. 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 ? [CBSE Delhi 2017]
2. The probability that it will rain today is 0.75. ? What is the probability that it will not rain today?
3. The probability of getting a bad egg in a lot of 500 eggs is 0.028. Find the number of good eggs in
the lot.
4. A card is selected at random from a deck of 52 cards. Find the probability that the selected card is
red face card.
5. 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.[CBSE Outside Delhi 2016]
6. Cards marked with number 3,4,5……………. ,50 are placed in a box and mixed thoroughly. A card is
drawn at random from the box. Find the probability that the selected card bears a perfect square
number. [CBSE 2016]
7. What is the probability that a doublet occurs on throwing two dice?
8. In a throw of a coin, find the probability of getting a head.
9. Two unbiased coins are tossed. What is the probability of getting at most one head?
10. An unbiased die is tossed. Find the probability of getting a multiple of 3?
11. In a well shuffled pack of cards, a card is © drawn at random. Find the probability of getting a
black queen.
12. Two coins are tossed simultaneously. What is the probability of getting exactly one ‘. head?
13. What is the probability of getting “a black¬face card’ from a well shuffled deck of 52 playing
cards?
14. Out of 400 bulbs in a box, 15 bulbs are defective. One bulb is taken out at random from the box.
Find the probability that the bulb drawn is non-defective.
15. If you toss a coin 6 times and it comes down heads on each occasion. Can you say that the
probability of getting a head is 1? Give reasons.
16. Jayanti throws a pair of dice and records the product of the numbers appearing on the dice.
Pihu throws 1 dice and records the square of the number that appears on it. Who has the better
chance of getting 36? Justify.
17. An integer is chosen between 70 and 100. Find the probability that it is (i) a prime number (ii)
divisible by 7. [CBSE SQP 2019-20 (Standard)
18. A game consists of tossing a coin 3 times and noting the outcome each time. If getting the same
result in all the tosses is a success, find the probability of lossing the game. [CBSE 2019]
19. A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting a number which (i) is a prime number (ii)
lies between 2 and 6. [CBSE 2019]
20. A pair of dice is thrown once. Find the probability of getting (i) even number on each dice (») a
total of 9. [CBSE 2019 (c)]
21. A bag contains some balls of which x are white, 2x are black and 3x are red. A ball is selected at
random. What is the probability that it is (i) not red (it) white? [CBSE 2019 (C)]
22. In a simultaneous throw of a pair of dice, find the probability of getting a total more than 7.
23. A bag contains 6 white and 4 black balls. Two balls are drawn at random. Find the probability
that they are of the same colour.
24. Two friends were born in the year 2000. What is the probability that they have the same
birthday?
25. A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting (i) a prime number (ii) a number lying
between 2 and 6 (iii) an odd number.
26. A box contains cards numbered 11 to 123. A card is drawn at random from the box. Find the
probability that the number on the drawn card is:
(i) a square number (ii) a multiple of 7 [CBSE Sample Paper-2017]
27. Cards, marked with numbers 5 to 50, are placed in a box and mixed thoroughly. A card is
drawn from the box at random. Find the probability that the number on the taken out card is
(i) a prime number less than 10. (ii) a number which is a perfect square.
28. A bag contains 14 balls of which x are white. If 6 more white balls are added to the bag, the
probability of drawing a white ball is 12. Find the value of x.
29. A box contains 12 balls of which some are red in colour. If 6 more red balls are put in the box
and a ball is drawn at random, the probability of drawing a red ball doubles than what it was before.
Find the number of red balls in the bag.
30. Two players, Sangeeta and Reshma play a tennis match. It is known that the probability of
Sangeeta winning the match is 0.62. What is the probability of Reshma winning?
31. Two different dice are tossed together. Find the probability:
(i) of getting a doublet (ii) of getting a sum 10, of the numbers on the two dice. [CBSE 2018]
32. An integer is chosen at random between 1 and 100. Find the probability that it is :
(i) divisible by 8 (ii) not divisible by 8. [CBSE 2018]
33. Two different dice are thrown together. Find the probability that the number obtained.
(i) have a sum less than 7 (ii) have a product less than 16
(iii) is a doublet of odd numbers. [CBSE 2017]
34. In a single throw of a pair of different dice, what is the probability of getting (?) a prime
number on each dice? (it) a total of 9 or 11? [CBSE 2016]
35. Three different coins are tossed together. Find the probability of getting (i) exactly two heads
(it) at least two heads (iii) at least two tails. [CBSE Outside Delhi 2016]
36. From the group of 2 boys and 3 girls, two children are selected at random. Find the probability:
(i) both selected children are girls. (ii) the selected group consists of one boy and one girl. (iii) at least
one boy is selected.
37. A card is drawn at random from a well shuffled deck of playing cards. Find the 1 probability of
drawing a (i) face card (ii) card which is neiher a king nor a red card.
38. A number ‘a’ is selected from the number [2,3] and then a second number V is selected from [1,
3, 7]. What is the probability that the product ab of two numbers is greater than 9?
39. The king, queen and jack of clubs are removed from a deck of 52 playing cards and then well
shuffled. Now one card is drawn at random from the remaining cards. Determine the probability that
the card is; (i) a heart (ii) a king.
40. Peter throws two different dice together and find the product of the two numbers obtained.
Rina throws a die and squares the number obtained. Who has the better chance
to get the number 25. [CBSE Delhi 2017]
41. A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow on a circular board,
divided into 8 equal parts, which comes to rest pointing at one of the numb ers 1,
2, 3, …., 8 (figure) which are equally likely outcomes. What is the probability that
the arrow will point at (i) an odd number (ii) a number greater than 3 (iii’) a number less than 9.
[CBSE Delhi 2016]
42. A number x is selected at random from the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. Another number y is selected
at random from the numbers 1, 4, 9 and 16. Find the probability that product of x and y is less than 16.
[CBSE Outside Delhi 2016]
43. (i) Two dice are rolled once. Find the probability of getting such numbers on the two dice,
whose product is 12. (ii) A box contains 80 discs which are numbered from 1 to 80. If one disc is
drawn at random from the box, find the probability that it bears a perfect square number.
44. A box contains 20 balls bearing numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, ………, 18, 19, 20. A ball is drawn at
random from the box. What is the probability that the number on the ball is:
(i) an odd number? (ii) divisible by 2 or 3? (iii) prime number? (iv) not divisible by 10?
45. If 65% of the population of a town have black eyes, 25% have brown eyes and the remaining
have blue eyes. What is the probability that a person selected at random has (i) Blue e yes (ii) Brown
or black eyes (iii) Blue or black eyes (iv) Neither blue nor brown eyes.
46. A bag contains only red, blue and green balls. Probability of selecting a red ball is 13.
Probability of selecting a green ball is 16. If the bag contains 24 blue balls, what is the total number of
the balls in the bag?
Multiple Choice Questions
1) An event is very unlikely to happen. Which of the following number is closest to its probability?
(a) 0.0001 (b) 0.1 (c) 1.0 (d) 0.001
2) Which of the following can’t be a probability of an event?
(a) 37 (b) 0.71 (c) 41% (d) 1716
3) Minimum value of probability of an event is
(a) -1 (b) 1 (c) 12 (d) 0
4) Maximum value of probability of an event is
(a) +1 (b) 100% (c) 12 (d) (a) and (b)
5) Which of the following number best expresses the probability of a man dying before
completing 150 years of age?
(a) 0.5 (b) 0.6 (c) 0.2 (d) 1
6) Which of the following number best expresses the probability of the sun rising from west?
(a) 1 (b) 0 (c) 12 (d) can’t say
7) Two coins are tossed. The probability of getting atmost one head is
(a) 14 (b) 12 (c) 34 (d) 13
8) Two players X and Y play a game of chess. The probability of X winning the game is 0.67. The
probability of Y losing the game i
(a) 0.37 (b) 0.67 (c) 0.33 (d) none of these
9) A lot of 25 bulbs contains 5 defective bulbs. A bulb is drawn at random from the lot. The
probability of having a good bulb is
(a) 15 (b) 45 (c) 25 (d) 35
10)A jar contains 6 red, 5 black and 3 green marbles of equal size. The probability that a randomly
drawn marble would be green in colour
(a) 514 (b) 1114 (c) 314 (d) 614
11)In a bag, there are 100 bulbs out of which 30 are bad ones. A bulb is taken out of the bag at
random. The probability of the selected bulb to be good is
(a) 0.50 (b) 0.70 (c) 0.30 (d) none of these
12)A hexagonal spinner of 6 equal sectors as shown in figure is spirtned. The probability o f getting
a vowel is
(a) 13 (b) 12 (c) 15 (d) 25
13)A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow which comes to rest pointing at one of the
numbers. The probability that it will point at number greater than 3 is
(a) 58 (b) 34 (c) 12 (d) 18
14)A die is dropped at random on a circular region as shown in adjoining fig. The probability that
it will fall on shaded region is
(a) 23 (b) 14 (c) 13 (d) 34
15)In a class of 30 students, there are 16 girls and 14 boys. Five are A grade students, and three of
these students are girls. If a student is chosen at random, the probability of it being a girl
student or A grade student is
(a) 35 (b) 45 (c) 815 (d) 715
Fill in the Blanks
1) An experiment whose outcome can’t be predicted yet it is one of the several possible outcomes
is called_ random experiment.
2) Probability of sure event is 100%.
3) Probability has two approaches namely _ empirical probability and theoretical probability.
4) Theoretical probability does not require any experiment to be performed.
5) A number is chosen at random from 1 to 9, the probability that it being prime is 49.
6) A bag contains 7 red and 7 black balls then the outcomes of getting a red and a black ball are
equally likely outcomes.
7) Sample space, when two coins are tossed is {HH, HT, TH, TT}_.
8) Event of getting odd number and event of getting even number on die are an example of
mutually exclusive events.
9) Probability of getting a red card in a single draw from a well shuffled deck of 52 cards 12.
10)Probability of getting a number less than 100 on die is _zero_.
