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A girl calculates that the probability of her winning the first prize in a lottery is 0.08. If 6000 tickets are sold, then how many tickets has the bought?

Given, total number of sold tickets = 6000

Let she bought x tickets.


Then, probability of her winning the first prize is given as,


[given]



∴ x = 480


Hence, she bought 480 tickets.

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