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A box contains 8 balls, 2 red, 3 blue , 1 green and 2 white. Four balls are selected randomly. What is the probability of having?1) 2 red and 2 blue?2) Different balls?3) At least 2 blue balls? |
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Answer» Answer: First of all we have 10 balls of which 2 are red, 3 are black and 4 are blue. If we can think carefully, the question is given that, when 3 balls are drawn, the balls are of DIFFERENT COLORS. There are 3 colors. So definitely one BALL should be drawn from each of the color. So the number of ways of HAPPENING the above case is 4C1*3C1*2C1. Let it be T(E). The number of ways of drawing three balls from 9 balls is given as 9C3. Let this be S(E). Let the probability of happening the given condition be P(E). Then according to definition of probability, we calculate it as, P(E)=T(E)/S(E). P(E)=4*3*2/9C3. =24/84. =2/7. |
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