An urn contains eight red and seven blue balls. A second

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PROBLEM 15E

An urn contains eight red and seven blue balls. A second urn contains an unknown number of red balls and nine blue balls. A ball is drawn from each urn at random, and the probability of getting two balls of the same color is 151/300. How many red balls are in the second urn?

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PROBLEM 15E

An urn contains eight red and seven blue balls. A second urn contains an unknown number of red balls and nine blue balls. A ball is drawn from each urn at random, and the probability of getting two balls of the same color is 151/300. How many red balls are in the second urn?

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Here  an urn contains eight red and seven blue balls. A second urn contains an unknown number of red balls and nine blue balls.if a ball is drawn from each urn at random. And the probability of getting two balls of same color is 151/300. We have to find how many red balas is there in the second urn.


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