NCERT Solutions for Class 8 Maths Exercise 5.3

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Class –VIII Mathematics (Ex. 5.3)

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 1. List the outcomes you can see in these experiments.

(a) Spinning a wheel  (b) Tossing two coins together

Ans. (a) There are four letters A, B, C and D in a spinning wheel. So there are 4 outcomes.

(b) When two coins are tossed together. There are four possible outcomes HH, HT, TH, TT.

(Here HT means head on first coin and tail on second coin and so on.)

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NCERT Solutions for Class 8 Maths Exercise 5.3

2. When a die is thrown, list the outcomes of an event of getting:

(i) (a) a prime number  

(b) not a prime number

(ii) (a) a number greater than 5 

(b) a number not greater than 5

Ans. (i) (a) Outcomes of event of getting a prime number are 2, 3 and 5.

(b) Outcomes of event of not getting a prime number are 1, 4 and 6.

(ii) (a) Outcomes of event of getting a number greater than 5 is 6.

(b) Outcomes of event of not getting a number greater than 5 are 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

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NCERT Solutions for Class 8 Maths Exercise 5.3

3. Find the:

(a) Probability of the pointer stopping on D in (Question 1 (a)).

(b) Probability of getting an ace from a well shuffled deck of 52 playing cards.

(c) Probability of getting a red apple. (See figure alongside)

Ans. (a) In a spinning wheel, there are five pointers A, A, B, C, D. So there

are five outcomes. Pointer stops at D which is one outcome.

So the probability of the pointer stopping on D =

(b) There are 4 aces in a deck of 52 playing cards. So, there are four events of getting an ace.

So, probability of getting an ace =

(c) Total number of apples = 7

Number of red apples = 4

Probability of getting red apple =

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NCERT Solutions for Class 8 Maths Exercise 5.3

4. Numbers 1 to 10 are written on ten separate slips (one number on one slip), kept in a box and mixed well. One slip is chosen from the box without looking into it. What is the probability of:

(i) getting a number 6.

(ii) getting a number less than 6.

(iii) getting a number greater than 6.

(iv) getting a 1-digit number.

Ans. (i) Outcome of getting a number 6 from ten separate slips is one.

Therefore, probability of getting a number 6 =

(ii) Numbers less than 6 are 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 which are five. So there are 5 outcomes.

Therefore, probability of getting a number less than 6 =

(iii) Number greater than 6 out of ten that are 7, 8, 9, 10.So there are 4 possible outcomes.

Therefore, probability of getting a number greater than 6 =

(iv) One digit numbers are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 out of ten.

Therefore, probability of getting a 1-digit number =

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5. If you have a spinning wheel with 3 green sectors, 1 blue sector and 1 red sector, what is the probability of getting a green sector? What is the probability of getting a none-blue sector?

Ans. There are five sectors. Three sectors are green out of five sectors.

Therefore, probability of getting a green sector =

There is one blue sector out of five sectors.

Non-blue sectors = 5 – 1 = 4 sectors

Therefore, probability of getting a non-blue sector =

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6. Find the probability of the events given in Question 2.

Ans. When a die is thrown, there are total six outcomes, i.e., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.

(i) (a) 2, 3, 5 are prime numbers. So there are 3 outcomes out of 6.

Therefore, probability of getting a prime number =

(b) 1, 4, 6 are not the prime numbers. So there are 3 outcomes out of 6.

Therefore, probability of getting a prime number =

 

(ii) (a) Only 6 is greater than 5. So there is one outcome out of 6.

Therefore, probability of getting a number greater than 5 =

(b) Numbers not greater than 5 are 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. So there are 5 outcomes out of 6.

Therefore, probability of not getting a number greater than 5 =

NCERT Solutions for Class 8 Maths Exercise 5.3

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