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CBSE Class 10 Maths (Basic) 2025 · Paper 430/1/1 · Question 31

Probability 3 marks Medium
A lot consists of 200 pens of which 180 are good and the rest are defective. A customer will buy a pen if it is not defective. The shopkeeper draws a pen at random and gives it to the customer. What is the probability that the customer will not buy it? Another lot of 100 pens containing 80 good pens is mixed with the previous lot of 200 pens. The shopkeeper now draws one pen at random from the entire lot and gives it to the customer. What is the probability that the customer will buy the pen?

Answer

The probability that the customer will not buy the pen from the first lot is ; the probability that the customer will buy the pen from the mixed lot is .

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