Question

A bag contains 2 red marbles, 4 blue marbles and 8 green marbles. If two marbles are drawn out of the bag, what is the probability, to the nearest 10th of a percent, that both marbles drawn will be blue?

Answer 1

0.1

Explanation:

total number of marbles= 2+4+8=14 marbles

probability of getting 2blue

= 4/14×3/13= 4×3/14×13=12/182= 0.06593

to the nearest tenth= 0.1