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A bag of marbles contains 6 blue marbles and 1 green marble. Mary and Frank will draw a blue marble followed by a green marble, without replacing the first marble. Mary says the probability will be 6/49, and Frank says that the probability will be 1/7. Who is correct? Explain and justify your answer by showing work.
---------------Is correct because___

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Answer:

Frank is correct.

Explanation:

Frank is correct because the bag does not have 49 marbles but it does have 7 total.

You can double check this: 6 + 1 =7. 7 marbles total so frank is correct!

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