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There are 3 red, 1 blue, and 2 yellow marbles in a bag. Once a marble is selected, it is not replaced. Find P(red and the yellow).

User Alexandre Lavoie
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5/6 is the correct answer.
User LucSpan
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Answer:

5/6

Explanation:

we add all the marbles together to get 6

then we seperate the marbles according to the question which would be yellow and red. that would make the probability of getting one of those to 5/6. Hope this helps :)

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