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A box contains two white, three black and four red balls. The number of ways of selecting 3 balls from the box with atleast one black ball is
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Options:
  • A 64
  • B 74
  • C 54
  • D 84
Solution:
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The correct answer is: 64

Number of ways of selecting 3 balls out of 9 balls without any restriction is 9C3.
Number of ways of selecting 3 balls such that no black ball is selected is 6C3.

Number of ways such that atleast one black ball is selected is C 9 3 C 6 3 =8420=64

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