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Which of the following cannot be the probability of an event?

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Important Questions on Probability

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Three squares of a chess board are selected at random. The probability of getting two squares of one colour and other of a different colour is
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One card is taken out from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the probability of getting a red face card.
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A dice is thrown once. Find the probability of getting a even number(Express the answer in proper fraction n its lowest form).
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The table below shows the value of probability when three identical coins are tossed. They are not matched correctly:

Column-A Column-B
i) Getting at most two heads a) 48
ii) Getting at least two heads b) 58
iii) Getting exactly one head c) 68
iv) Getting neither all heads nor all tails d) 38
  e) 78

 

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In a box, there are 8 red, 7 blue and 6 green balls. One ball is picked up randomly. The probability that the ball is neither blue nor green is:
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A dice is thrown at random. Find the probability of getting an odd number.

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A pen is drawn at random from a mixture of 12 defective pens and 132 good pens. Determine the probability that the pen is taken out is a good one.

Write your answer upto three decimal places.

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An octahedral die whose faces are numbered 1 through 8 (only one number on one face) is thrown three times. What is the probability that the product of the numbers obtained in first two throws is equal to the number obtained in the third throw?

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A die is thrown once. Find the probability of getting a number which is a prime number
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Find the probability of getting a head when a coin is tossed once.
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Two dice are thrown at the same time. The probability that, the sum of two numbers appearing on the top of the dice is greater than 6 but less than 9 is 
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A lot of 20 bulbs contain 4 defective ones. One bulb is drawn at random from the lot. What is the probability that this bulb is defective?
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A bag contains 12 white balls and 8 black balls. One ball is picked at random. What is the probability of selecting a black ball as a percent?
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One of the six letters is taken at random: SPACES

Write down the probability that the letter is S. (write the answer in fraction)

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Rachita spins a spinner that is divided into 8 equal sectors numbered 1 to 8. Find the probability of spinning an odd number.

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Rachita spins a spinner that is divided into 8 equal sectors numbered 1 to 8. Find the probability of spinning a composite number.

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Josh and Soumik each take a coin at random out of their pockets and add the totals together to get an amount. Josh has two $1 coins, a 50c coin, a $5 coin and three 20c coins in his pocket. Soumik has three $5 coins, a $2 coin and three 50c pieces. What is the probability that the coins will add up to $6?

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One of the six letters is taken at random: SPACES

The letter is replaced and again a letter is taken at random. This is repeated 600 times. How many times would you expect the letter to be S?

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Rachita spins a spinner that is divided into 8 equal sectors numbered 1 to 8. Find the probability of spinning the number 10

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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:

 Monthly income
(in ₹)

Vehicles per family
   0  1 2 Above 2
Less than 7000 10 160 25 0
7000-10000 0 305 27 2
10000-13000 1 535 29 1
13000-16000 2 469 59 25
16000 or more 1 579 82 88

Suppose a family is chosen, find the probability that the family chosen is earning 16000 or more per month and owning exactly 1 vehicle.