A huge pencil bag contains 40 pencils of two different shades, 4B and 6B. Initially, there are x numbers of 6B pencils in the bag. If 45 more 6B pencils are put in the bag, the probability of randomly picking a 6B pencil now will be quadruple that of the previous probability of picking a 6B pencil. With the given information, evaluate the original number of 6B shade in

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A huge pencil bag contains 40 pencils of two different shades, 4B and 6B. Initially, there are x numbers of 6B pencils in the bag. If 45 more 6B pencils are put in the bag, the probability of randomly picking a 6B pencil now will be quadruple that of the previous probability of picking a 6B pencil. With the given information, evaluate the original number of 6B shade in the pencil bag.

 

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