Given:
A basket contains \(2\) white, \(3\) red and \(4\) black balls, two balls are drawn at random.
Total number of balls \(=2+3+4=9\)
We know that:
Probability \(=\frac{\text { Favorable Outcome }}{\text { Total Outcome }}\)
\(P(E)=\frac{n(E)}{n(S)}\)
Let \(S\) be the sample space.
Let \(E=\) Event of drawing \(2\) balls, none of them is black
Number of all combinations of \(n\) things, taken \(r\) at a time is given by \({ }^{n} C_{r}=\frac{n !}{(r) !(n-r) !}\)
Total number of ways of drawing \(2\) balls out of \(9\) balls
\(n(S)={ }^{9} C_{2}\)
There are four black balls in the total nine balls. Total number of non-black balls \(=9-4=5\)
Number of ways of drawing \(2\) balls out of \(5\) balls, if none of them is black
\(n(E)={ }^{5} C_{2}\)
\(\Rightarrow P(E)=\frac{n(E)}{n(S)}=\frac{{ }^{5} C_{2}}{{ }^{9} C_{2}}\)
\(=\frac{\frac{5 !}{2 ! 3 !}}{\frac{9}{2 ! 7 !}}\)
\(=\frac{\frac{5 \times 4 \times 3 \times 2 \times 1}{2 \times 1 \times 3 \times 2 \times 1}}{\frac{9 \times 8 \times 7 \times 6 \times 5 \times 4 \times 3 \times 2 \times 1}{2 \times 1 \times 7 \times 6 \times 5 \times 4 \times 3 \times 2 \times 1}}\)
\(=\frac{\left\{\frac{(5 \times 4)}{(2 \times 1)}\right\}}{\left\{\frac{(9 \times 8)}{(2 \times 1)}\right\}}\)
\(=\frac{10}{36}\)
\(=\frac{5}{18}\)
\(\therefore\) The probability of not any ball being drawn is black is \(\frac{5}{18}\).