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A urn contains 3 red and 5 black balls. Tom first withdraws a ball from the urn and Mary withdraws a ball from the urn without replacement. They keep withdrawing a ball alternately until a red ball is selected. Find the probability that Tom selects the red ball.

a) 3/8
b) 15/64
c) 31/56
d) 48/64
e) 34/56

User Luis Cazares
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The answer is B if you don’t need an explanation that is
User Derit Agustin
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Answer:

The answer is B

Explanation:

I learned this from my math teacher

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