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A bag has white, black, and red balls. A ball is drawn at random from the bag. The probability of getting a white ball is `3/(10)` and that of a black ball is `2/5`. Find the probability of getting a red ball. If the bag has 20 black balls, find the total number of balls in the bag.

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