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An urn contains twenty white slips of paper numbered from 1 through 20, ten red slips of paper numbered from 1 through 10, forty yellow slips of paper numbered from 1 through 40, and ten blue slips of paper numbered from 1 through 10. If these 80 slips of paper are thoroughly shuffled so that each slip has the same probability of being drawn. Find the probabilities of drawing a slip of paper that is blue or white
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Solution
P(Blue or White) = P(Blue) + P(White) (Why?)
= `10/80 + 20/80`
= `30/80`
= `3/8`
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