Question

Mona has a bag containing 4 red marbles, 12 greens marbles, and 8 black marbles. Without looking, she pulls out one marble from the bag and places it in an empty jar. She then pulls a second marble from the bag and places it in the jar. What is the probability that she will have 2 red marbles in the jar?

Answer 1

Answer: C (4/24*3/23)

Explanation:

4 red

12 green

8 black

24 total

pulling red on the first pull:

4/24

pulling red on the second pull:

3/23

so C