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An experiment is conducted With a bag of marbles containing 5 red and 2 blue marbles. The results of a marble being drawn twice and replaced 100 Times

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In this experiment, a bag with 5 red and 2 blue marbles is drawn from twice and replaced 100 times. The probability of drawing a blue marble on the first and second draw is 4/49. The expected number of times this will happen out of 100 experiments is 8.16.

Step-by-step explanation:

In this experiment, a bag contains 5 red marbles and 2 blue marbles.

Each marble is drawn twice and replaced 100 times.

The probability of drawing a blue marble on the first draw is 2/7, since there are 2 blue marbles out of 7 total marbles. After replacing the marble, the probability of drawing a blue marble again is still 2/7.

This is because the original proportions of marbles remain the same after each draw.

To calculate the probability of drawing a blue marble twice in a row, we multiply the probabilities together.

So the probability of drawing a blue marble on both the first and second draw is (2/7) * (2/7) = 4/49.

Finally, to calculate the expected number of times a blue marble will be drawn twice in a row out of 100 experiments, we multiply the probability by the number of experiments:

(4/49) * 100 = 8.16.

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