Chapter 31 Probability Exercise Ex. 31.1
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Chapter 31 Probability Exercise Ex. 31.2
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An urn contains 10 black and 5 white balls. Two balls are drawn from the urn one after the other without replacement. What is probability that both drawn balls are black?Solution 11
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Chapter 31 Probability Exercise Ex. 31.3
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If A and B are two events such that

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Assume that each born child is equally likely to be a boy or a girl. If a family has two children, what is the conditional probability that both are girls? Given that
(i) the youngest is a girl
(ii) at least one is girl.Solution 27
(i) Let ‘A’ be the event that both the children born are girls.
Let ‘B’ be the event that the youngest is a girl.
We have to find conditional probability P(A/B).

(ii) Let ‘A’ be the event that both the children born are girls.
Let ‘B’ be the event that at least one is a girl.
We have to find the conditional probability P(A/B).

Chapter 31 Probability Exercise Ex. 31.4
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Given that the events ‘A coming in time’ and ‘B coming in time’ are independent.


The advantage of coming to school in time is that you will not miss any part of the lecture and will be able to learn more.Question 24
Two dice are thrown together and the total score is noted. The event E, F and G are “a total 4”, “a total of 9 or more”, and “a total divisible by 5”, respectively. Calculate P (E), P(F) and P(G) and decide which pairs of events, if any, are independent.Solution 24

Question 25
Let A and B be two independent events such that P (A) = p1 and P (B) = p2. Describe in words the events whose probabilities are:
(i) p1p2 (ii) (1 – p1)p2 (iii) 1-(1- p1) (1 – p2) (iv) p1 + p2 = 2p1p2Solution 25

Chapter 31 Probability Exercise Ex. 31.5
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Question 35
In a hockey match, both teams A and B scored same number of goals upto the end of the game, so to decide the winner, the refree asked both the captains to throw a die alternately and decide that the team, whose captain gets a first six, will be declared the winner. If the captain of team A was asked to start, find their respective probabilities of winning the match and state whether the decision of the refree was fair or not.Solution 35

Chapter 31 Probability Exercise Ex. 31.6
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There machines E1, E2, E3 in a certain factory produce 50%, 25% and 25% respectively, of the total daily output of electric bulbs. It is known that 4% of the tubes produced one each of machines E1 and E2 are defective, and that 5% of those produced on E3 are defective. If one tube is picked up at random from a day’s production, calculate the probability that it is defective.Solution 13

Chapter 31 Probability Exercise Ex. 31.7
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Suppose a girl throws a die. If she gets 1 or 2, she tosses a coin three times and notes the number of tails. If she gets 3,4, 5 or 6, she tosses a coin once and notes whether a ‘head’ or ‘tail’ is obtained. If she obtained exactly one ‘tail’, what is the probability that she threw 3, 4, 5 or 6 with the die?Solution 5

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An item is manufactured by three machine A, B and C. out of the total number of items manufactured during a specified period, 50% are manufacture on machine A 30% on B and 20% on C. 2% of the items produced on A and 2% of items produced on B are defective and 3% of these produced on C are defective. All the items stored at one godown. One items is drawn at random and is found to be defective. What is the probability that it was manufactured on machine A?Solution 14

Question 15
There are three coins. One is two-headed coin (having head on both faces), another is biased coin that comes up heads 75% of the times and third is also a biased coin that comes up tail 40% of the times. One of the three coins is chosen at random and tossed, and it shows heads. What is the probability that it was the two-headed coin?Solution 15

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Question 19
In a group of 400 people, 160 are smokers and non-vegetarian, 100 are smokers and vegetarian and the remaining are non-smokers and vegetarian. The probabilities of getting a special chest disease are 35%, 20% and 10% respectively. A person is chosen from the group at random and is found to be suffering from the disease. What is the probability that the selected person is a smoker and non-vegetarian?Solution 19

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