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Chapter 15 : Probability
Q. 1500 families with 2 children were selected randomly, and the following data were recorded:
No. of girls in a family 21 0
No. of families475 814 211
Compute the probability of a family, chosen at random, having
(i) 2 girls
(ii) 1 girl
(iii) No girl
Also check whether the sum of these probabilities is 1.
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Q. Activity: Note the frequency of two-wheelers, three-wheelers and four-wheelers going past during a time interval, in front of your school gate. Find the probability that any one vehicle out of the total vehicles you have observed is a two-wheeler.
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Q. The distance (in km) of 40 engineers from their residence to their place of work were found as follows:
5310202511137123119101217181132171627978351215183121429615157612
What is the empirical probability that an engineer lives:
(i) less than 7 km from her place of work?
(ii) more than or equal to 7 km from her place of work?
(iii) within 12 km from her place of work?
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Q. A study was conducted to find out the concentration of sulphur dioxide in the air in parts per million (ppm) of a certain city. The data obtained for 30 days is as follows:
0.030.080.080.090.040.170.160.050.020.060.180.200.110.080.120.130.220.070.080.010.100.060.090.180.110.070.050.070.010.04
Using this table, find the probability of the concentration of sulphur dioxide in the interval 0.120.16 on any of these days.
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Q. Three coins are tossed simultaneously 200 times with the following frequencies of different outcomes:
Outcome3 heads2 heads1 headNo head
Frequency23727728
If the three coins are simultaneously tossed again, compute the probability of 2 heads coming up.
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Q. In a class of 40 students, ask them to write a 3-digit number. Choose any student at random. What is the probability that the number written by her/him is divisible by 3? Remember that a number is divisible by 3, if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3.
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Q.

MarksNumber of Students
0207
203010
304010
405020
506020
607015
70 Above8
Total90
A teacher wanted to analyze the performance of two sections of students in a mathematics test of 100 marks. Looking at their performance, she found that a few students got, under 20 marks and a few got 70 marks or above. So she decided to group them into intervals of varying sizes as follows: 020, 2030...., 6070, 70100 Then she formed the following table.
(i) Find the probability that a student obtained less than 20% in the mathematics test.
(ii) Find the probability that a student obtained marks 60 or above.
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Q. In a cricket match, a batswoman hits a boundary 6 times out of 30 balls she plays. Find the probability that she did not hit a boundary.
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Q. Eleven bags of wheat flour, each marked 5kg, actually contained the following weights of flour (in kg):
4.97 5.05 5.08 5.03 5.00 5.06 5.08 4.98 5.04 5.07 5.00
Find the probability that any of these bags chosen at random contains more than 5 kg of flour.
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Q. The blood groups of 30 students of Class VIII are recorded as follows:
A, B, O, O, AB, O, A, O, B, A, O, B, A, O, O,
A, AB, O, A, A, O, O, AB, B, A, O, B, A, B, O.
Use this table to determine the probability that a student of this class, selected at random, has blood group AB.
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Q.
OpinionNo. of students
like135
dislike 65
To know the opinion of the students about the subject statistics, a survey of 200 students was conducted. The data is recorded in the following table.
Find the probability that a student chosen at random
(i) likes statistics.
(ii) does not like statistics.
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Q.
Vehicles per family
Monthly income (Rs.)
0 1 2 Above 2
Less than 7, 00010 160 25 0
7, 000 - 10, 0000 305 27 2
10, 000 - 13, 000 1 535 29 1
13, 000 - 16, 000 2 469 59 25
16, 000 or more 1 579 82 88
An organisation selected 2400 families at random and surveyed them to determine a relationship between income level and the number of vehicles in a family. The information gathered is listed in the table below:
Suppose a family is chosen. Find the probability that the family chosen is
(i) earning Rs.1000013000 per month and owning exactly 2 vehicles.
(ii) earning Rs.16000 or more per month and owning exactly 1 vehicle.
(iii) earning less than Rs.7000 per month and does not own any vehicle.
(iv) earning Rs.1300016000 per month and owning more than 2 vehicles.
(v) owning not more than 1 vehicle.
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Q. In a particular section of class IX, 40 students were asked about the month of their birth and following graph was prepared for data so obtained:
Find the probability that a student of the class was born in August.
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