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A drawer contains 30 pens of various colors: 4 are black, 10 are blue, 3 are red, 6 are green, 6 are blue and red, and 1 is white. A white pen is removed from the drawer.

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Answer:

the probability in the case when the white pen would be removed from the drawer is 1 ÷ 30

Explanation:

The computation of the probability in the case when the white pen would be removed from the drawer is given below

= Favorable outcome ÷ total outcome

= 1 ÷ 30

Hence, the probability in the case when the white pen would be removed from the drawer is 1 ÷ 30

We simply applied the above formula

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