Two outcomes.
1/2.
Class 10 · Maths · Chapter 14 · बिहार बोर्ड (BSEB)CBSE · NCERT 2026-27
Probability
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समप्रायिक परिणाम · Opening of NCERT 14.1 · questions 2 and 3
A fair coin is symmetrical. In a random toss, heads and tails are equally likely. The book does not count landing on the edge.
The six faces of a die are equally likely. A car starting, or a basketball shot landing, is not equally likely. The book treats a true-false guess and the birth of a boy or a girl as equally likely. In question 3 the coin is fair because there is no tilt toward either side.
Write the names of the outcomes. If practice, weather or skill tilts one side, do not call them equally likely. In a bag of 4 red balls and 1 blue ball, red and blue are not equally likely. Drawing any one particular ball is equally likely.
Question: A coin is tossed once. The probability of heads.
Formula: P = favourable / total, when the outcomes are equally likely.
Substitution: Favourable 1, total 2. 1/2.
Answer: 1/2. The probability of tails is also 1/2.
In a BSEB answer write yes or no for question 2 with one reason.
On CBSE do not call 4 red and 1 blue equally likely.
Two outcomes.
1/2.
False — skill tilts it.
Six faces.
1/6.
Question 2 (iii).
Equally likely.
Starting depends on the battery and the engine. Starting and not starting are not given equal hope.
P(E) और प्राथमिक घटना · The definition · lines 1 and 5 of the summary
An event is a group of one or more outcomes. An event with only one outcome is an elementary event.
P(E) = favourable outcomes / total equally likely outcomes. The probabilities of the elementary events add to 1. A die has six elementary events and 6 × (1/6) = 1.
Three red and five black balls make 8. Red is 3/8, black is 5/8. The bottom of the fraction stays 8 every time. The top changes. Writing 3/5 treats the total as the black balls.
Question: The probability of one red ball from 3 red and 5 black.
Formula: P = favourable / total.
Substitution: Favourable 3, total 8. 3/8.
Answer: 3/8. Not red, that is black, is 5/8.
In a BSEB answer write favourable and total on two short lines.
On CBSE turn a fraction into a decimal only when the question asks. Leave 3/8 as it is.
The total is 8.
3/8.
True — line 5 of the summary.
Six faces.
6.
5 favourable.
5/8.
False — it holds one outcome.
The total is 17. White is 8/17. Not green is 13/17.
0, 1 और पूरक · Exercise 14.1 questions 1, 4, 5, 6, 7
An impossible event has probability 0. A sure event has 1. Every event between them lies between these.
P(E) + P(not E) = 1. In a bag of only lemon candies, orange is 0 and lemon is 1. If P(E) = 0.05, then not E = 0.95. If not sharing a birthday is 0.992, sharing one is 0.008. −1.5 cannot be a probability.
The complement is not a fresh count when one probability is already given. 1 − 0.05 = 0.95. 1 − 0.992 = 0.008. Turn a percent into a decimal first: 15 percent = 0.15, and that is allowed.
Question: P(E) = 0.05. Find P(not E).
Formula: P(not E) = 1 − P(E).
Substitution: 1 − 0.05 = 0.95.
Answer: 0.95.
In a BSEB answer complete the five blanks of question 1 one by one.
On CBSE do not pick 15 percent as the impossible number. Pick −1.5.
A negative.
−1.5.
True — impossible.
1 − 0.05.
0.95.
1 − 0.992 = 0.008.
सिक्के, तीर और मछली · Exercise 14.1 questions 10, 11 and 12
The piggy bank has 100 fifty-paise coins, 50 one-rupee coins, 20 two-rupee coins and 10 five-rupee coins. The total is 180 coins.
Fifty paise is 100/180 = 5/9. Not a five-rupee coin is 170/180 = 17/18. The fish are 5 male and 8 female, total 13, so male is 5/13. The arrow stops on 1 to 8. The probability of 8 is 1/8, and a number less than 9 is sure, probability 1.
From 1 to 8 the odd numbers are 1, 3, 5 and 7, four of them. The probability is 4/8 = 1/2. Greater than 2 are 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, six of them. The probability is 6/8 = 3/4. The number 2 itself is not in that list.
Question: Of 180 coins, 100 are fifty paise. One coin falls out. The probability it is fifty paise.
Formula: P = 100/180.
Substitution: 100/180 = 10/18 = 5/9.
Answer: 5/9.
In a BSEB answer write the addition line for the total 180 first.
On CBSE do not write 0 for a number less than 9. The arrow only goes to 8, so this is 1.
100/180.
5/9.
True — all eight numbers are less than 9.
5 and 8.
5/13.
Four odd numbers.
4/8 = 1/2.
170/180 = 17/18.
पासा और ताश · Exercise 14.1 questions 13 and 14
A pack has 52 cards. Each suit has 13. Jack, queen and king are the face cards, 12 in all. Red face cards are 6.
On a die the primes are 2, 3 and 5, probability 3/6 = 1/2. Between 2 and 6 are 3, 4 and 5, again 1/2. A red king is 2/52 = 1/26. A spade is 13/52 = 1/4. One named card is 1/52.
A red face card demands both conditions. Half of the 12 face cards are red, so 6/52 = 3/26. A face card alone is 12/52 = 3/13. The jack of hearts is one card, 1/52.
| Ask | Favourable | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| Red king | 2 | 1/26 |
| Face card | 12 | 3/13 |
| Red face | 6 | 3/26 |
| Spade | 13 | 1/4 |
Question: The probability of a spade from a well-shuffled pack.
Formula: P = 13/52.
Substitution: 13/52 = 1/4.
Answer: 1/4.
In a BSEB answer write 52 under every fraction and then simplify.
On CBSE do not forget the queen and the king apart from the jack. Face cards are of three kinds.
10-second revision
2, 3, 5.
3/6 = 1/2.
True — 13/52.
Two red kings.
1/26.
12/52.
3/13.
False — there are two red kings.
The jack of hearts is 1/52. A red face card is 6/52 = 3/26.
बिना वापस रखे · Exercise 14.1 questions 15, 16, 17 and 18
From five cards the queen is 1/5. Remove the queen and four cards remain. An ace is 1/4 and a queen is now 0.
Pens are 12 bad + 132 good = 144. Good is 132/144 = 11/12. Bulbs are 4 bad and 16 good. After a good one is drawn and not replaced, 15 of the remaining 19 are good. A good bulb is 15/19. Among discs 1 to 90, two-digit numbers are 81/90 = 9/10.
The first queen was favourable and is no longer in the set. The second time, the probability of a queen is 0. The ace is still one, but the total has become 4. In a without-replacement question, write the two totals apart.
Question: Of 20 bulbs, 4 are bad. A good one is drawn and not replaced. The probability of a good bulb now.
Formula: P = good left / total left.
Substitution: There were 16 good. After one good is removed, 15. Total 19. 15/19.
Answer: 15/19.
In a BSEB answer write the totals of the first and second draws apart.
On CBSE do not write 16/19. A good bulb has already left, so 15 remain.
10-second revision
That card has gone.
0.
True — 132/144.
15 good left, total 19.
15/19.
The squares are 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64 and 81. Nine discs. 9/90 = 1/10.
दो पासे और गलत तर्क · Exercise 14.1 questions 22 to 25 · summary
Two dice have 36 ordered outcomes. The sum 7 can happen in six ways, probability 6/36 = 1/6. Calling the eleven sums 1/11 is wrong.
Three coins have 8 outcomes. All three alike happens in only two ways, so the loss is 6/8 = 3/4. A die thrown twice is the same experiment as two dice. No 5 at all has probability 25/36. On two coins, one of each has probability 1/2, not 1/3. The argument that an odd number is 1/2 is correct.
Head-tail and tail-head are two outcomes. Do not fold them into one name and make three outcomes. On two dice, (1,2) and (2,1) are different too. Question 20 is about area, and the book does not count it for the examination.
Question: A die is thrown twice. The probability of at least one 5.
Formula: P(at least one) = 1 − P(none).
Substitution: Not 5 once = 5/6. Twice, (5/6)×(5/6) = 25/36. 1 − 25/36 = 11/36.
Answer: 11/36.
In a BSEB answer show a small part of the table of 36, not all 36 lines.
On CBSE do not accept the arguments that use 1/11 and 1/3. Count the outcomes.
10-second revision
Six ways, total 36.
6/36 = 1/6.
False — 2/4 = 1/2.
6 out of 8.
3/4.
Three odd, three even.
Correct. Question 25 (ii).
No 5: 25/36. At least one 5: 1 − 25/36 = 11/36.
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No question is marked as a verified past paper. The BSEB set is a model for practice. CBSE items are CBSE-style, not a copy of any year’s paper.
Two outcomes.
1/2.
Negative.
−1.5.
Total 8.
3/8.
Subtract from 1.
0.95.
100/180.
5/9.
Total 13.
5/13.
13/52.
1/4.
132/144.
11/12.
6/36.
1/6.
1 − 25/36.
11/36.
6/8.
3/4.
One good one has left.
15/19.
False.
True.
False.
True.
False — 1/2.
True.
True.
The statement is false — that argument is correct.
1/2.
One over two.
0.95.
1 − 0.05.
0.008.
1 − 0.992.
3/8.
3 and 5.
1/4.
13/52.
1/10.
Nine squares.
25/36.
(5/6)×(5/6).
5/9.
100/180.
Sure is 1, impossible is 0, a face is 1/6, heads is 1/2.
The complement in 5 is 0.95, red is 3/8, a spade is 1/4, and at least one 5 is 11/36.
Assertion (A): If P(E) = 0.05, the probability of not E is 0.95.
Reason (R): Complementary events add to 1.
Both are true and R explains A.
Assertion (A): −1.5 is a possible probability.
Reason (R): Probability stays between 0 and 1, ends included.
A is false. R is true.
Assertion (A): On two dice the probability of sum 7 is 1/6.
Reason (R): The 11 names of the sums are equally likely.
A is true. R is false, the ways are spread over 36.
Assertion (A): The probability of a spade is 1/4.
Reason (R): The probability of a prime on a die is 1/2.
Both are true, but R does not explain a spade.
Assertion (A): After the queen is removed, the probability of another queen is 0.
Reason (R): That one queen has left the set, and four of the five cards remain.
Both are true and R explains A.
0 is impossible, 1 is sure, 3/8 is in between, and −1.5 is rejected.
The coin and true-false are equally likely. The shot and the car are not.
Favourable outcomes / total equally likely outcomes.
P(E) + P(not E) = 1.
A probability is not smaller than 0.
36.
Sure is 1, impossible is 0.
Total 8. Red 3/8. Not red 5/8.
A red king is 2/52 = 1/26. A face card is 12/52 = 3/13.
Good left 15, total 19. 15/19.
25/36 and 11/36.
Fifty paise is 100/180 = 5/9. Not a five-rupee coin is 170/180 = 17/18.
Four outcomes: head-head, head-tail, tail-head, tail-tail. Two are favourable. The probability is 1/2. 1/3 treats three names as equal, but one of each is two different outcomes.
The total is 8. The wins are head-head-head and tail-tail-tail, two ways. The loss is 6/8 = 3/4.
This model set is for practice. It is not a question from any year’s annual examination.
Nine squares.
9/90 = 1/10.
Two A faces, six in all.
2/6 = 1/3.
31/36.
124 are good.
5, 10, ..., 90. The count is 18. 18/90 = 1/5.
8 is 1/8. Odd is 4/8 = 1/2. Greater than 2 is 6/8 = 3/4. Less than 9 is 8/8 = 1.
Assertion (A): In a bag of only lemon candies, the probability of lemon is 1.
Reason (R): The probability of orange is also 1.
A is true. R is false, orange is 0.
These are competency-based practice questions. They are not a copy of any year’s paper.
Four outcomes, two favourable.
1/2.
36 outcomes.
6/36 = 1/6.
Assertion (A): The probability of odd on a die is 1/2.
Reason (R): There are three odd and three even faces.
Both are true and R explains A.
Assertion (A): Question 20 is a compulsory calculation for the examination.
Reason (R): The book writes on that question that it is not from the examination point of view.
A is false. R is true.
Red and blue are not equally likely, because there are four red balls. Drawing one particular ball is equally likely.
The total is now 4. An ace is 1/4. A queen is 0.
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What you learned
| What | Keep this |
|---|---|
| Formula | P(E) = अनुकूल / कुल |
| Sure | P = 1 |
| Impossible | P = 0 |
| Complement | P(E) + P(नहीं E) = 1 |
| Die | एक अंक 1/6 |
| Cards | 52 पत्ते, एक पत्ता 1/52 |
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