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A shopkeeper's cash box in Indore holds 26 ten-rupee notes, 14 twenty-rupee notes and 20 fifty-rupee notes. He pulls out one note without looking. What is the probability that the note is worth at least twenty rupees?

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Step-by-Step Solution

Total notes = 26 + 14 + 20 = 60. "At least twenty rupees" means the twenty-rupee and the fifty-rupee notes, i.e. 14 + 20 = 34 notes. counts the ten-rupee notes, which is the complement; reads "at least" as "more than" and takes only the fifty-rupee notes; adds the two cheapest kinds, 26 + 14 = 40 notes, instead of the two dearest.
Answer: A)

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