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Can someone please help? I came up with 3/6.

Can someone please help? I came up with 3/6.-example-1
User Wes Field
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The answer is : 14/33
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Answer:

14/33

Explanation:

Okay so first of all, we want to find the probability of picking that first purple marble. There are 8 purple marbles you can chose out of a possible 12 marbles, so the probability is 8/12, or 2/3.

Next, find the probability of finding the second purple marble. Since you took out one purple marble already, there are 7 purple marbles you could chose out of a possible 11 marbles, so the probability is 7/11.

To find out the probability of both of these events happening, you multiply these probabilities:


(2)/(3) * (7)/(11)\\(2*7)/(3*11) \\(14)/(33)

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