Question

1. Which of these numbers cannot be a probability?

a) -0.00001
b) 0.5
c) 1.001
d) 0
e) 1
f) 20%

2. A die is rolled, find the probability that an even number is obtained.

3. A bowl contains 2 red chips, 4 blue chips, 3 Yellow chips and I green chip.
One chip is randomly drawn. Find the probability of drawing is: -
a) A red chip
b) A balck chip
c) A green chip

4. Tickets numbered 1 to 20 are mixed up and then a ticket is drawn at

random. What is the probability that the ticket drawn has a number which
is a multiple of 3 or 5?

5. In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up
randomly. What is the probability that it is neither red nor green?

6. A bag contains 6 black and 8 white balls. One ball is drawn at random.
What is the probability that the ball drawn is white?

7. Mrs. Avery is going to randomly select one student from her class to read a
poem out loud. There are 15 boys and 13 girls in her class. What P(boy)

8. Greg has an MP3 player called the Jumble. The Jumble randomly selects a
song for the user to listen to. Greg's Jumble has 6 classical songs, 7 rock
songs, and 9 rap songs on it. What is P(not a rap song)
9. Bruce is going to call one person from his contacts at random. He
has 25 total contacts. 20 of those contacts are from his neighborhood.What
is P(call a person not from his neighborhood)

10. Toss a coin 100 times, how many Heads will come up

4. Here, S = {1, 2, 3, 4, ...., 19, 20}.

Let E = event of getting a multiple of 3 or 5 = {3, 6 , 9, 12, 15, 18, 5, 10, 20}.
n(E) 9
P(E) = = .
n(S) 20

5. Total number of balls = (8 + 7 + 6) = 21.

Let E = event that the ball drawn is neither red nor green

= event that the ball drawn is blue.

n(E) = 7.
n(E) 7 1
P(E) = = = .
n(S) 21 3