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In a cricket match, a batsman hits a boundary 8 times out of 40 balls he plays. Find the probability that he didn’t hit a boundary.

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let `A` be the event that the batsman did not hit the boundary
`n(A)=40 - "number of times the batsman hit the boundary"`
`= 40-8=32`
`therefore P(A)=32/40=8/10`
`=0.8`
The probability that the batsman did not hit the boundary is `0.08`
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