Probability that a ball drawn from a box, after drawing some balls, is white

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Suppose we have a box of $n$ balls, from which, $n_1$ balls are white. we draw $k$ balls ($k<n$) from the box and we put them aside "without seeing them". What is the probability that the next ball drawn from the box is white?

I know that the answer is the same for a problem in which we draw only one ball. But why is that? Is there a mathematical proof for this?