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ZEN PUBLICATION-PROBABILITY-TEXTUAL EXERCISES (14.1)
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  2. Which of the following experiments have equally likely outcomes? Expla...

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

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  4. Which of the following cannot be the probability of an event? (A) 2...

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  5. If P (E) = 0.05, what is the prabability of 'not' E' ?

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  6. A bag contains lemon flavoured candies only. Malini takes out one cand...

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  7. It is given that in a group of 3 students, the probability of 2 studen...

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  8. A bag contains 3 red balls and 5 black balls. A ball is drawn at rando...

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  9. A box contains 5 red marbles, 8 white marbles and 4 green marbles . On...

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  10. A piggy bank contains hundred 50p coins, fifty Rs. 1 coins, twenty Rs....

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  11. Gopi bus a fish from a shop for his aquarium. The shopkeeper takes out...

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  12. A game of chance consists of spinning an arrow which comes to rest poi...

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  13. A die is thrown once, Find the probability of getting (i) a prime nu...

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  14. One card is drawn from a well-shuffled deck of 52 cards. Find the pr...

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  15. Five cards - the ten , jack , queen , king and ace of diamonds, are we...

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  16. 12 defective pens are accidentally mixed with 132 good ones. It is not...

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  17. A lot of 20 bulbs contain 4 defective ones. One bulb is drawn at rando...

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  18. A box contains 90 dices which are numbered from 1 to 90. If one dise i...

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  19. A child has a die whose six faces shows the letters as given below: ...

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  20. Suppose you drop a die at random one the rectangular region shown in t...

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