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There are 12 marbles in a bag: 4 red, 2 blue, and 6yellow. You grab three marbles one after the otherwithout replacing them. What is the probabilitythat you grab three different colors?

There are 12 marbles in a bag: 4 red, 2 blue, and 6yellow. You grab three marbles-example-1
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Okay, here we have this:

Considering the provided information, we are going to calculate the requested probability, so we obtain the following:

So what we want to know is the probability that three simple events happen, so we will use the formula of favorable cases over possible cases and multiply their results, so we have:

Probability of getting three different colored balls without replacing = Probability of getting the first red ball * Probability of getting the second blue ball * Probability of getting the third yellow ball

Probability of getting three different colored balls without replacing = (Number of Red Balls/Total Balls) * (Number of Blue Balls/Remaining Balls) * (Number of Yellow Balls/Remaining Balls)

Probability of getting three different colored balls without replacing = (4/12) * (2/11) * (6/10)

Probability of getting three different colored balls= (4*2*6)/(12*11*10)

Probability of getting three different colored balls= 48/1320

Probability of getting three different colored balls= 2/55

Finally we obtain that the correct answer is the first option.

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