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A bag contains 3 red balls, 5 white balls and 8 blue balls. One ball is taken out of the baf at random. fine the probability that the ball taken out is
(a) a red ball,
(b) not a white ball.

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The correct Answer is:
a] `3/(16)`
b] `(11)/(16)`
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