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A piggy bank contains fifty `50p` coins, forty `₹1` coins, thirty `₹2` coins and twenty `₹5` coins. If it is equally likely that one of the coins will fall out when the bank is turned upside down, what is the probability that the coin (i) will be a `₹5` coin?

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Let two subsets of set A be B C.

There are exactly two elements in `B cap C`.
Two elements can be selected in `""^(k)C_(2)` ways.
Now each of the remaining (k-2) elements can be put in any of the three regions X, Y or Z. [Here, Z represents `(A cup B)']`
Number of ways in which this can be done are `3^(k-2)`.
But we must exclude the case in which all the elements are put in region Z as otherwise sets B and C will be identical.
Also, the order of subsets should not be considered.
Hence, total number of ways `=(""^(k)C_(2)(3^(k-2)-1))/(2)`
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