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A bag cohtains 4 red marbles, 5 blue marbles and 3 green marbles. If two marbles are drawn out of the bag, what is the exact probability that both marbles drawn will be blue?​

User Dowhilefor
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21 votes

Answer:

12.5%

Explanation:

you have 7 reds of 14 total.

the 1st marble has 7 of 14 probability of being red

the 2nd has 6 of 13 of being red

the 3rd has 5 of 12 of being red

multiplying this out you have:

(7/14)*(6/13)*(5/12)=210/2184

THAT will condense down to 5/52 or 9.615%

this does assume not placing the balls back in between draws

if you do put them back in between draws you would have 7 of 14 chance each draw

that would give you by multiplying out

(7/14)*(7/14)*(7/14)=343/2744

that condenses to 1 of 8 or 12.5%

User NicolasBernier
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Answer:

5/12

Explanation:

total number of marble is 12 total number of blu is 5

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