Question 2 (a) The names of 5 students from section A, 6 students from section B and 7 students from section C were selected. The age of all the 18 students was different. Again, one name was selected from them and it was found that it was of section B. What was the probability that it was the youngest student of the section B?    (b) There are total 18 balls in a bag. Out of them 6 are red in colour, 4 are green in colour and 8 are blue in colour. If Vishal picks three balls randomly from the bag, then what will be the probability that all the three balls are not of the same colour?   (c) Bag A contains 3 green and 7 blue balls. While bag B contains 10 green and 5 blue balls. If one ball is drawn from each bag, what is the probability that both are green?

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(a) The names of 5 students from section A, 6 students from section B and 7 students from section C were selected. The age of all the 18 students was different. Again, one name was selected from them and it was found that it was of section B. What was the probability that it was the youngest student of the section B? 

 

(b) There are total 18 balls in a bag. Out of them 6 are red in colour, 4 are green in colour and 8 are blue in colour. If Vishal picks three balls randomly from the bag, then what will be the probability that all the three balls are not of the same colour?

 

(c) Bag A contains 3 green and 7 blue balls. While bag B contains 10 green and 5 blue balls. If one ball is drawn from each bag, what is the probability that both are green?

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