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A bag contains balls numbered from 1 to 42. One ball is drawn at random from these balls. The probability that its number is a multiple of 7 or 8 is:

The correct answer is

11⁄42

Numbers from 1 to 42 that are multiples of 7: {7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42} → 6 numbers Numbers that are multiples of 8: {8, 16, 24, 32, 40} → 5 numbers Numbers that are multiples of both 7 and 8 (LCM = 56, but 56 is not in range) → 0 numbers Using the formula for union in probability: P(A ∪ B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A ∩ B) = (6/42) + (5/42) - (0/42) = 11/42

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