Mathematics
Aditya has a bag containing some black and some white balls. The probability of a randomly chosen ball from this bag being white is . If 5 white balls are added and 5 black balls are removed from the bag, the probability of choosing a white ball changes to . The total number of balls in the bag is:
10
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50
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Answer
Let W be the initial number of white balls and B be the initial number of black balls. The total number of balls,
T = W + B
Given,
The probability of picking a white ball is .
Since 5 white balls are added and 5 black balls are removed,
The total number of balls remain same and number of white balls increase W + 5.
Given,
The new probability choosing a white ball is .
Hence, option 2 is the correct option.
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