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# A bag contains 16 red balls and 20 blue balls only. How many white balls…

A bag contains 16 red balls and 20 blue balls only. How many white balls must be added to the bag so that the probability of randomly picking a red ball is equal to (frac{2}{5})
• A.
4
• B.
20
• C.
24
• D.
40
##### Explanation

Number of red balls = 16,
Number of blue balls = 20
Let x represent the No of white balls to be added
∴ Total number of balls = 36 + x
2(36 + x) = 80
= 2x + 80 – 72
= 8
x = (frac{8}{2})
= 4
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