document.write( "Question 935692: A single ball is taken at random from an urn containing 10 balls numbered 1 through 10. What is the probability of obtaining the following:\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "There are 10 balls. Five of them are even (2,4,6,8,10).\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "There are 4 balls less than 5 (1,2,3,4)
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