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A bag contains 5 red and 3 blue marbles. Two marbles are drawn simultaneously from the bag. DETERMIN the probability that at least one is red.

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total number of balls = 5 + 3 = 8

The possibilities are:

RR (two red) and RB (one red and one blue)

RR and RB are mutually exclusive

P(RR) =

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