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CAPE Pure Mathematics Unit 2 · May/June 2009 · Paper 2 · Question 5(b)(i)

Two balls are drawn without replacement from a bag containing 12 balls numbered 1 to 12. Find the probability that:

the numbers on BOTH balls are even

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