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A box containing 3 red, 3 white and 3 green balls. A ball is selected at random. Find the probability that,

(ii) ball picked up is not red.

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Solution

One ball is drawn at random from a bag containing 3 red balls (R1, R2 and R3), 3 white balls (W1, W2 and W3) and 3 green balls (G1, G2 and G3).
∴ S = {R1, R2, R3, W1, W2, W3, G1, G2, G3}
Or,
n(S) = 9
Now,
B is the event that the picked ball is not red.
∴ B = {W1, W2, W3, G1, G2, G3}
Or,
n(B) = 6
Thus, we have:
P(B) = n(B)n(S)=69=23

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