Question

There 13 yellow cards, 6 blue, 10 red, 8 green cards in a stack of cards turned face down. Once a card is selected, it is not replaced. Find P(2 blue cards). Please be specific with your answer.

Answer 1

5/222

Explanation:

you need to add all the cards together first

13 + 10 + 8 + 6 = 37

then you take out 1 card to find the first probability of the blue card (there are 6 blue cards out of 37)

so 6/37

that will be your first probability

then for the 2nd probability, you will have 1 less card grom the deck making it only 36 cards (after taking out the first one, there will be only 5 blue cards left)

making it 5/36

that will be the 2nd probability

then you multiply both these probabilities to find the answer

6/37 × 5/36 = 5/222