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Question 21
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A box contains purple discs and orange discs.

The ratio of purple discs to orange discs is 5:15:15:1.

Two discs are picked at random from the box.

The probability that both discs are orange is 166\displaystyle \frac{1}{66}661​.

Work out the total number of discs in the box before any were picked.

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