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A bag contains 6 red balls and some blue balls. If the probability of drawing a blue ball from the bag is twice that of a red ball, find the number of blue balls in the bag.

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Let the number of black balls be n.
Total no. of balls=15+n
according to the question=>`n/(n+15)=45/(n+15)`
thus n=45.
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