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A girl calculates that the probability of her winning the ifrst prize in a lottery is 0.08. If 6000 tickets are sold, then how many tickets has she bought?

A

40

B

240

C

480

D

750

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The correct Answer is:
C
Given total number of sold tickets=6000
Let she bought x tickets
Then probability of her winning the first prize `=(x)/(6000)=0.08`
`Rightarrow =x=0.008xx6000`
`therefore x=480`
Hence she bought 480 tickets
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