A ball is drawn from a bag containing 13 red balls numbered 1–13 and 5 white balls numbered 14–18. What is the probability that (a) the ball is not even-numbered? (b) the ball is red and even-numbered? (c) the ball is red or even-numbered? (d) the ball is neither red nor even-numbered?

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A ball is drawn from a bag containing 13 red balls numbered 1–13 and 5 white balls numbered 14–18. What is the probability that

(a) the ball is not even-numbered?

(b) the ball is red and even-numbered?

(c) the ball is red or even-numbered?

(d) the ball is neither red nor even-numbered?

 

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