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Q. A bag contains 3 black, 3 white and 2 red balls. Three balls are drawn without replacement one-by-one. The probability that the third ball is red, is

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Solution:

Three possible cases arise
$ IIst $ draw
$ IInd $ draw
$ III\text{ }rd $ draw
Red Non-red Non-red
Non-red Red Non-red
Red Red Red
$ \therefore $ Required probability $ =\frac{2}{8}\times \frac{6}{7}\times \frac{1}{6}+\frac{6}{8}\times \frac{2}{7}\times \frac{1}{6}+\frac{6}{8}\times \frac{5}{7}\times \frac{2}{6} $ $ =\frac{2}{56}+\frac{2}{56}+\frac{10}{56}=\frac{14}{56} $