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A ticket counter at a Mumbai suburban station has a stack of 60 unsold tickets, of which 25 are first class and the rest second class. The clerk picks up one ticket at random. What is the probability that it is a second-class ticket?

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Step-by-Step Solution

Second-class tickets = 60 - 25 = 35, so is the first-class tickets' ; assumes the two kinds are equal in number; keeps the 7 from the simplified fraction but forgets to simplify the denominator too.
Answer: D)

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