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The probability of selecting a red ball at random from a jar that contains only red, blue and orange ball is .The probability of selecting a blue ball at random from the same jar is . If the jar contains 10 orange balls, find the total number of balls in the jar.[CBSE 2015]

Let the total number of elementary events that is total number of balls in the jar be x

Then, 1/4 x + 1/3 x + 10 = x


120 + 7x = 12 x


120 = 5x


X = 24, being total number of balls in jar

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