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5-A a king or ace

Total number of king is 4 out of 52 cards.


Total number of aceis 4 out of 52 cards
Number of favourable outcomes i.e. a king or an ace is 4 + 4 = 8 out of 52 cards.
Therefore, probability of getting a king or a queen
P(E) =

Number of favorable outcomes


Total number of possible outcome

= 8/52
= 2/13
5-B. a black card or red card
Cards of spades and clubs are black cards.
Number of spades = 13
Number of clubs = 13
Cards of hearts and diamonds are red cards.
Number of hearts= 13
Number of diamonds = 13
total number of black card out of 52 cards = 13 + 13 = 26
total number of red card out of 52 cards= 13 + 13 = 26
26+26= 52
Probability= 52/52
=1
5-D a club card or a heart card
Number of hearts= 13
Number of clubs = 13
Number of favourable outcomes i.e. a club card or a heart card is 13+13 = 26 out of 52 cards.
Probability= 26/52=
5-E a face card or a red card
Number of face card in spades (king, queen and jack or knaves) = 3
Number of face card in clubs (king, queen and jack or knaves) = 3

Number of face card in hearts (king, queen, and jack) =3


in diamonds (king, queen, and jack) = 3
Therefore, total number of face card out of 52 cards = 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 =12

A red card:
Cards of hearts and diamonds are red cards.
Number of hearts = 13
Number of diamonds = 13
Therefore, total number of black card out of 52 cards = 13 + 13 = 26+12= 38
the probability of getting a face card or a red is
(P)=38/52=19/26

9-B a black card:


Cards of spades and clubs are black cards.
Number of spades = 13
Number of clubs = 13
Therefore, total number of black card out of 52 cards = 13 + 13 = 26
Therefore, probability of getting a black card

P(H) =

Number of favorable outcomes


Total number of possible outcome
= 26/52
=

9-A a card of diamond


Number of favourable outcomes i.e. a card of diamond is 13 out of 52 cards.
Therefore, probability of getting a card of diamond

P(D) =

Number of favorable outcomes


Total number of possible outcome
= 13/52
=

9-C face card:


Number of face card in spades (king, queen and jack or knaves) = 3
Number of face card in clubs (king, queen and jack or knaves) = 3

Number of face card in hearts (king, queen, and jack) =3


in diamonds (king, queen, and jack) = 3
Therefore, total number of face card out of 52 cards = 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 =12
Therefore, probability of getting face card

P(G) =

Number of favorable outcomes


Total number of possible outcome
= 12/52
= 3/13

6-A a sum of 5 or 6
getting a sum of 5:
Let E4 = event of getting a sum of 5. The number which is a sum of 5 will be E4 = [(2, 3), (4, 1),
(1, 4), (3, 2)] = 4
(v) getting a sum of6:
Let E5 = event of getting a sum of 6. The number which is a sum of 6 will be E5 = [(2,4), (1, 5),
(4,2 ), (5, 1), (3, 3)] = 5

Therefore, probability of getting a sum of 5 or 6


P=

Number of favorable outcomes


Total number of possible outcome
= (5+4)/36= 1/4

6-B
(v) getting a sum of 10:
Let E3 = event of getting a sum of 10. The number which is a sum of 19 will be E3 = [(4, 6), (5,
5), (6, 4)] = 3
(v) getting a sum Of 11:
Let E2 = event of getting a sum of 11. The number which is a sum of 8 will be E2 = [(5, 6), (6,
5)] = 2

Therefore, probability of getting a sum of 10 or 11

P=

Number of favorable outcomes


Total number of possible outcome
= 5/36

(7) A. Getting two tails


Let E2 = event of getting 2 heads. Then,
E2 = {TTH, THT, HTT}
and, therefore, n(E2) = 3.
Therefore, P(getting 2 TAILS) = P(E2) = n(E2)/n(S) = 3/8.
B. getting 3 TAILS
Let E1 = event of getting all heads. Then,
E1 = {TTT}
and, therefore, n(E1) = 1.
Therefore, P(getting 3 TAILS) = P(E1) = n(E1)/n(S) = 1/8.
C. getting at least 2 heads
Let E5 = event of getting at least 2 heads. Then,
E5 = {HHT, HTH, THH, HHH}
and, therefore, n(E5) = 4.
Therefore, P(getting at least 2 heads) = P(E 5) = n(E5)/n(S) = 4/8 = 1/2.
D. getting one head
Let E3 = event of getting 1 head. Then,
E3 = {HTT, THT, TTH} and, therefore,
n(E3) = 3.
Therefore, P(getting 1 head) = P(E3) = n(E3)/n(S) = 3/8.

8-A a yellow ball


(p) = 7/12
8-B a non-yellow ball
3+2= 5
therefore the probability in getting a non-yellow ball
(P)= 5/12
8-C a non-red ball
7+2=9

therefore the probability in getting a non-red ball


(p)=9/12=
8-D
7+3= 10
therefore the probability in getting a non-white ball
(P) 10/12=5/6

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