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Given:
The probability of drawing a red candy at random from a bag of 25 candies is .
To find:
The probability of randomly drawing a red candy from the bag after removing 5 candies from the bag.
Solution:
Let n be the number of red candies in the bag. Then, the probability of getting a red candy is:
After removing the 5 candies from the bag, the number of remaining candies is and the number of remaining red candies is
.
Now, the probability of randomly drawing a red candy from the bag is:
Therefore, the required probability is .