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प्रश्न
A box has 5 blue and 4 red balls. One ball is drawn at random and not replaced. Its colour is also not noted. Then another ball is drawn at random. What is the probability of second ball being blue?
उत्तर
Given that the box has 5 blue and 4 red balls.
Let E1 be the event that first ball drawn is blue
E2 be the event that first ball drawn is red
And E is the event that second ball drawn is blue.
∴ P(E) = `"P"("E"_1)."P"("E"/"E"_1) + "P"("E"_2)."P"("E"/"E"_2)`
= `5/9 xx 4/8 + 4/9 xx 5/8`
= `20/72 + 20/72`
= `40/72`
= `5/9`
Hence, the required probability is `5/9`.
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