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Probability

Question
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There are three urns A, B and C. Urn A contains 4 white balls and 5 blue balls. Urn B contains 4 white balls and 3 blue balls. Urn C contains 2 white balls and 4 blue balls. One half is drawn from each of these urns. What is the probability that out of these three balls drawn, two are white balls and one is a blue ball?

Solution

                                                  Urn A                Urn B                  Urn C
White                                          4                          4                       2
Blue                                            5                          3                       4
P(two white and one blue) = P(WWB) + P(WBW) + P(BWW)
            = P(W) P(W) P(B) + P(W) P(B) P(W) + P(B) P(W) P(W)
           equals space 4 over 9 cross times 4 over 7 cross times 4 over 9 plus 4 over 9 cross times 3 over 7 cross times 2 over 6 plus 5 over 9 cross times 4 over 7 cross times 2 over 9
equals space 64 over 378 plus 24 over 378 plus 40 over 378 space equals fraction numerator 64 plus 24 plus 40 over denominator 378 end fraction space equals 128 over 378 space equals 64 over 189
             

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