There are some red counters and some blue counters in a bag.
The ratio of red counters to blue counters is 3:1.
Two counters are removed at random.
The probability that both the counters taken are blue is 120\displaystyle \frac{1}{20}201
Work how many counters were in the bag before any counters were removed.
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