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Exercise:

1. How many ways are there to choose a committee of 4 persons from a group of 10
persons, if order is not important?

2. If an experiment consists of throwing a die and then drawing a letter at random from
the English alphabets, how many sample points in sample space.

3. How many ways are there to select 3 candidates from 8 equally qualified recent
graduates for opening in an accounting firm.

4. Two balls are selected at random from a bag with four white balls and three black
balls, where order is not important.

 What would be an appropriate sample space S ?


 What is the probability that both balls are white?
 What is the probability that both balls are black?
 What is the probability that one is white and one is black?

5. Three balls are selected at random from a bag containing


2 red , 3 green , 4 blue balls .

 What would be an appropriate sample space S ?


 What is the the number of outcomes in S ?
 What is the probability that all three balls are red ?
 What is the probability that all three balls are green ?
 What is the probability that all three balls are blue ?
 What is the probability of one red, one green, and one blue ball ?

6. A bag contains 4 black balls and 4 white balls. Suppose one draws two balls at
random, then find the probability one ball is black and one is white.

7. A class contains 10 men and 20 women, of which half the men and half the women
have brown eyes. Find the probability that a person chosen at random is a man or has
brown eyes.

8. One bag contains 3 white and 2 black balls; another contains 5 white and 3 black balls.
If a bag chosen at random and a ball are taken from it, what is the probability that it is
a white?

9. A can solve 75% of the problems of a book and B can solve 70%. What is the
probability that either A or B can solve a problem chosen at random.
10. If a coin is tossed two times then what is the probability of two Heads?

11. If a coin is tossed two times then what is the probability of two Heads, given that the
first toss gave Heads ?

12. In a poker hand consisting 5 cards, find probability of holding 2 aces and 3 jacks

13. Suppose we draw a card from a shuffled set of 52 playing cards.

 What is the probability of drawing a Queen?


 What is the probability of drawing a Queen, given that the card drawn is of suit
Hearts?
 What is the probability of drawing a Queen, given that the card drawn is a Face card?

14. Suppose we draw two cards from a shuffled set of 52 playing cards. What is the
probability that the second card is a Queen?

15. Two cards are randomly selected from an ordinary playing deck. What is the
probability that they form a blackjack? What is the probability that one of the card is
an ace and the other one is either a ten, a jack, a queen, or a king?

16. What is the probability of winning exactly £10 on the National Lottery? In the UK
National Lottery, there are 49 numbered balls, and six of these are selected at random.
A seventh ball is also selected, but this is only relevant if you get exactly five numbers
correct. The player selects six numbers before the draw is made, and after the draw,
counts how many numbers 29 are in common with those drawn. If the player has
selected exactly three of the balls drawn, then the player wins £10. The order the balls
are drawn in is irrelevant.

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