A bag contains red and blue balls

MATHEMATICS · Multi-part · CBSE · Mathematics · Probability · Probability

Problem

A bag contains 55 red and 33 blue balls. Two balls are drawn successively without replacement. (i) Calculate the probability that the first ball drawn is red and the second ball drawn is blue. (ii) Find the probability that the second ball is blue given that the first ball was red. (iii) If the second ball drawn turns out to be blue, determine the probability that the first ball was red.

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