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Q.

A bag contains 6 white balls and 4 black balls. A ball is drawn and is put back in the bag with 5 balls of the same colour as that of the ball drawn. A ball is drawn again at random. What is the probability that the ball drawn now is white.

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a

35

b

16

c

67

d

25

answer is A.

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Detailed Solution

Let A, B be the events of drawing white ball and black ball from the bag in 1st
draw respectively.
Here A, B are exclusive and exhaustive

P(A)=610=35;P(B)=410=25

Let E be the event of getting white ball in 2nd draw.

Now P(E)=P(ES)=P[E(AB)]  (AB=S)

=P[(EA)(EB)]=P(EA)+(EB)

=P(A)P(E/A)+P(B)P(E/B)         .... (1)

P(E/A)=P(getting white ball when 1st ball drawn from the bag is white)

=1115[ white ball is put back with 5 white balls ]

similarly P(E/B)=615

[since black ball is put back along with 5 black balls]

from (1), P(E)=1115×35+615×25=35

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