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JEE Advanced 2024 · Paper 2, Mathematics question 9

A bag contains NN balls out of which 3 balls are white, 6 balls are green, and the remaining balls are blue. Assume that the balls are identical otherwise. Three balls are drawn randomly one after the other without replacement. For i=1,2,3i = 1, 2, 3, let WiW_i, GiG_i, and BiB_i denote the events that the ball drawn in the ithi^{\text{th}} draw is a white ball, green ball, and blue ball, respectively. If the probability P(W1∩G2∩B3)=25NP(W_1 \cap G_2 \cap B_3) = \dfrac{2}{5N} and the conditional probability P(B3∣W1∩G2)=29P(B_3 \mid W_1 \cap G_2) = \dfrac29, then NN equals _____.

Answer and worked solution

Official answer: 11

After a white and then a green ball are removed, N−2N-2 balls remain, of which N−9N-9 are blue:
P(B3∣W1∩G2)=N−9N−2=29  ⟹  9N−81=2N−4  ⟹  N=11.P(B_3\mid W_1\cap G_2)=\frac{N-9}{N-2}=\frac29\implies 9N-81=2N-4\implies N=11.

Check: P(W1∩G2∩B3)=311⋅610⋅29=255=25NP(W_1\cap G_2\cap B_3)=\frac3{11}\cdot\frac6{10}\cdot\frac29=\frac{2}{55}=\frac{2}{5N}. ✓