A bag contains 16 red balls and 20 blue balls only. How many white balls must be added to the bag so that the probability of randomly picking a red ball is equal to \(\frac{2}{5}\)

a

4

b

20

c

24

d

40

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Korede2002
6 years ago

How did 80 get there?🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

manstarhaleem
4 years ago

Pls explain

rahmarufai
2 years ago

the question isn’t complete

ayomidee311
3 years ago

I don't understand how 80 is gotten

umul khair
9 months ago

a clear explanation
16/36+x=2/5
16/36+x=2*8/5*8
the 8was gotten by dividing d two numerators
5*8=40
then, 40-36=4. thank you🙏

Smart22king22
1 year ago

I don't see how they got 80

rahmarufai
2 years ago

it doesn’t have answers

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