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MEMORIAL SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL

Thirumurugan Salai, Thirumurugan Nagar, Chitlapakkam, Chennai – 600064

Question Bank for Probability- 2024-2025

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS: (Remembering and understanding)
1. A coin is flipped to decide which team starts the game. What is the
probability of your team will start?
(a) 1/4 (b) 1/2 (c) 1 (d) 0
2. A die is thrown once. What will be the probability of getting a prime
number?
a) 1/6 (b) ½ (c) 1 (d) 0
3. Two dice are rolled simultaneously. What is the probability of getting a
sum of 7?
a) 1/6 b) 1/12 c) 1/9 d) 1/36
4. In a class of 40 students, 24 are girls. What is the probability of
randomly selecting a boy from the class? (Remembering)
a) 3/5 b) 2/5 c) 1/2 d) 5/8
5. A coin is tossed 100 times and 560 times a “head” occurs. The
empirical probability of occurrence of a Head in this case is
a) 0.5 b) 0.56 c)0.44 d) 0.056
6. What is the probability of rolling an odd number on a fair six-sided die?
a) 1/2 b) 1/3 c) 1/6 d) 1/4
7. If a bag contains 5 red balls and 3 blue balls, what is the probability of
drawing a blue ball?
a) 3/8 b) 5/8 c) 3/5 d) 5/3
8. If the probability of an event E is 0.4, what is the probability of its
complement?
a) 0.4 b) 0.6 c) 0.2 d) 0.8
9. Which of the following cannot be the probability of an event?
(a) 0.01 (b) 3% (c) 16/17 (d) 17/16
10. If P(A) denotes the probability of an event A then:
(a) P(A) < 0 (b) P(A) > 0 (c) 0 < P(A) < 1 (d) -1 < P(A) < 0
ASSERTION AND REASON (Analyzing and Evaluating)
1. Pick correct option given below: (a) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R)
are the true and Reason (R) is a correct explanation of Assertion (A).
 (b) Both Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are the true but Reason (R) is
not a correct explanation of Assertion (A).
(c) Assertion (A) is true and Reason (R) is false.
(d) Assertion (A) is false and Reason (R) is true.
Assertion: Probability of getting a prime number greater than 5 on a
single throw of die is 1/6.
Reason: Probability of sure event is always 1
2. Assertion: Probability of drawing a face card is more than probability
of drawing a red card. Reason: there are 52 cards of which 26 are red
cards and 12 are face cards.
3. Assertion (A): If a box contains 5 White, 2 Red and 4 Black marbles.
Than the probability of not drawing a white marble from the box is
5/11.
Reason (R): P(Not E) = 1 – P(E), where E is an event.
4. Assertion (A): Card numbered as 1,2,3….15 are put in a box and
mixed, one card is than drawn at random. The probability of drawing
an even number is 1/2.
Reason (R): For any event E, we have 0 ≤ P (E) ≤ 1.
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
1. An unbiased die is thrown. What is the probability of getting (Analyzing)
a). an even number
b). a multiple of 3
c). a multiple of 2 or 3
d). a number less than 5 divisible by 2.
e). A number greater than 2 divisible by 3.
f). an even number or a multiple of 3
g). an even number and a multiple of 3
h). a number 3 or 4
i). an odd number
j). a number less than 5
k). a number greater than 3
l). a number between 3 and 6.
2. Two dice are thrown at the same time. Determine the
probabiity that the difference of the numbers on the two dice
is 2. (Applying)
3. A bag contains 4 red balls, 3 blue balls, and 5 green balls. What is the
probability of drawing a green ball? (Applying)
4. Two cards are drawn successively from a deck of 52 playing cards
without replacement. Find the probability that both cards are spades.
(Applying)
5. A coin is tossed three times. What is the probability of getting at least
one head? (Applying)

6. One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the

 probability of getting
a). an ace card
b). a red card
c). either red or king card
d). red and a king
e). ‘2’ of spades
f). ‘10’ of a black suit
g). a queen of black suit
h). either a black card or a king
i). black and king card
j). a jack, queen or a king
k). a heart card
l). a queen card
m). the ace of spades
n). the seven of clubs
o). a ten
p). a black card
q). neither a heart nor a king
r). neither an ace nor a king
s). neither a red card nor a queen card
t). a face card or an ace
u). a face card or a black card
v). a face card and a black card
w). neither a face card nor an ace
x). neither a face card nor ’10’ card
y). either a king or red card
z). either an ace or black card (Analyzing)
7. Five cards—the ten, jack, queen, king and ace of diamonds, are
removed from the well-shuffled 52 playing cards. One card is then
picked up at random. Find the probability of getting
a). neither a heart nor a king
b). neither an ace nor a king
c). neither a red card nor a queen card
d). a black card or an ace.
e). either a heart or a spade card
f). a king card
g). a heart card
h). a red card
i). a black card
j). a spade card
k). a diamond card
l). a club card
m). either an ace card or black card
 n). an ace card
o). a face card
p). a face card with red colour
q). neither ‘10’ card nor an ace
r). an even number card
s). an odd number card
t). not a natural number. (Creating)
8. A box contains 6 white balls and 4 black balls. Two balls are drawn at
random. Find the probability that:
a) Both balls are white.
b) One ball is white and one ball is black. (Evaluating)
9. A card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 playing cards. Find the
probability that the card drawn is:
a) A face card (jack, queen, or king).
b) A red card or a face card. (Evaluating)
10. An urn contains 5 red balls, 4 blue balls, and 3 green balls. A ball is
drawn at random. If it is a red ball, a second ball is drawn. If it is not a
red ball, a third ball is drawn. Find the probability that:
a) Both balls drawn are red.
b) Exactly one ball drawn is green. (Creating)
11. A bag contains 3 red balls and 5 black balls. A ball is drawn at random
and then put back into the bag. Another ball is then drawn. Find the
probability that both balls drawn are red. (Evaluating)
12. Two coins are tossed simultaneously. Find the probability of getting
a). at least one head
b). at most one head
c). exactly two head
d). exactly one head
e). no head
f). no tail
g). at least one tail
h). at most one tail
i). exactly two tails
j). exactly one tail (Creating)
CASE BASED QUESTIONS; (Analyzing and creating)
1. In a sample of 50 people, 21 had type O blood, 22 had type A
blood, 5 had type 5 B blood, and 2 had type AB blood. Set up a
frequency distribution and find the following probabilities.
(i) What is the probability that a person has type O blood?
(ii) What is the probability that a person has type A or type B blood?
(iii) What is the probability that a person has neither type A nor type O
blood?
(iv) What is the probability that a person does not have type AB blood?
(v) What is the probability of impossible and sure events
respectively.
2. Two customers are visiting a particular shop in the same week
(from Monday to Saturday) . Each is equally likely to visit the shop
on any one day as on another.
i) List all possible outcomes .
ii) What is the probability that both will visit the shop on : (ii) the
same day ?
iii) different days ?
iv) consecutive days?