Question

5) A bag contains eight red

marbles and six blue
marbles. You randomly pick
a marble and return it to the
bag before picking another
marble. What is the
probabilty that the first
marble you picked was blue
and the second marble was
red? Record your answer as
a decimal to the
thousandths place (three
places past the decimal).

Answer 1

P(B,R) = 24.490%

Explanation:

P(B,R) = 6/14 x 8/14 which can be simplified to become 12/49 or 24.490%