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A bag contains 6 balls. Two balls are drawn from it at random and both are found to be black. The probability that the bag contains at least 5 black balls is
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Options:
  • A 57
  • B 27
  • C 37
  • D 56
Solution:
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The correct answer is: 57

Let the bag contains black ballsB and non-black balls B¯, then we can have the following possibilities:

6B,0B¯, 5B,1B¯, 4B,2B¯, 3B,3B¯,2B,4B¯

All the events are equally likely, i.e., 15.

Required probability

=15×C26C26+15×C25C2615×C26C26+15×C25C26+15×C24C26+15×C23C26+15×C22C26

=2535=57

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