i. A coin is tossed. What are all possible outcomes?
ii. Two coins are tossed simultaneously. What are all possible outcomes?
iii. A die is thrown. What are all possible outcomes?
iv. From a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards, one card is drawn at random.
What is the number of all possible outcomes?
In a single throw of the coin, what is the probability of getting a tail?
In a single throw of two coins, find the probability of getting (i) both tails, (ii)
at least 1 tail, (iii) at the most 1 tail.
A bag contains 4 white and 5 blue balls. They are mixed thoroughly and one
ball is drawn at random. What is the probability of getting (i) a white ball? (ii)
A blue ball?
A bag contains 5 white, 6 red, and 4 green balls. One ball is drawn at random.
What is the probability that the ball drawn is (i) green? (ii) White? (iii) Nonred?
In a lottery, there are 10 prizes and 20 blanks. A ticket is chosen at random.
What is the probability of getting a prize?
OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS
Select the correct answer in each of the following:
is the probability of getting a green sector?
a) 5/3
b) 5/8
c) 1/5
d) 3/8
8 cards are numbered as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 respectively. They are kept in a
box and mixed thoroughly. One card is chosen at random. What is the
probability of getting a number less than 4?
a) ½
b) ¾
c) 3/8
d) 3/5
Two coins are tossed simultaneously. What is the probability of getting one
head and one tail?
a) ¼
b) ½
c) ¾
d) 2/3
A bag contains 3 white and 2 red balls. One ball is drawn at random. What is
the probability that the ball is drawn is red?
b) 2/3
d) 2/5