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A ball is chosen from the bag that contains 30 balls numbered from 1 to 30. What is the probability that the ball chosen will have a number that is divisible by 3?
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There are 30 outcomes of which 10 are favourable.
Hence, the required probability is $\frac{10}{30}$ = $\frac{1}{3}$ .

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