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There are 40 students in Class X of a school of whom 25 are girls and 15 are boys. The class teacher has to select one student as a class representative. She writes the name of each student on a separate cards, the cards being identical . Then she puts cards in a box and stirs them throughly. She then draws one card from the box.What is the probability that the name written on the card is the name of a boy?

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  2. Outcomes of which of the following experiments are equally likely ?(1)...

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  3. Give examples of 5 experiments that have equally likely outcomes and f...

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  4. Think of 5 situations with equally likely events and find the sample s...

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  5. Is getting a head complementary to getting a tail ? Give reasons.

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  6. In case of a die is getting a 1 complementary to events getting 2, 3,4...

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  7. Write of five new pair of events that are complementary.

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  8. A child has a dice whose six faces show the letters A,B,C,D,E and F. T...

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  9. Which of the following cannot be the probability of an event? 2.3

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  10. Which of the following cannot be the probability of an event? -1.5

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  11. Which of the following cannot be the probability of an event? : 15%

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  12. Which of the following cannot be the probability of an event? 0.7

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  13. You have a single deck of well shuffled cards. Then, What is the pro...

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  14. What is the probability that it is face card?

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  15. What is the probability that it is a spade?

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  16. What is the probability that is the face card of spades?

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  17. What is the probability it is not a face card?

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  18. Why is tossing a coin considered to be a fair way of deciding which te...

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  19. Can 7/2 be the probability of an event? Explain.

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  20. Which of the following arguments are correct and which are not correct...

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  21. Which of the following arguments are correct and which are not correct...

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