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Aptitude · Q18

Probability

Competitive Exams · Aptitude · question 18

Q18

An urn contains 6 red, 4 blue, 2 green and 3 yellow marbles. If 4 marbles are picked up at random, what is the probability that at least one of them is blue?

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B.
Answer
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E.
None of these

Answer: Option B

Solution

Answer: Option B
Solution:
Total number of marbles = (6 + 4 + 2 + 3) = 15
Let E be the event of drawing 4 marbles such that none is blue.
Then, n(E) = number of ways of drawing 4 marbles out of 11 non-blue.
    = 330
And n(S) =       = 1365
     
∴ Required probality =