A bag contains 8 red marbles, 6 blue marbles and 3 green marbles. If two marbles are drawn out of the bag, what is the probability, to the nearest 1000th, that both marbles drawn will be blue?

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Baf asked Mar 3, 2023

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A bag contains 8 red marbles, 6 blue marbles and 3 green marbles. If two marbles are drawn out of the bag, what is the probability, to the nearest 1000th, that both marbles drawn will be blue?

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0.082

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Too much work, turn each group into fractions, multiply each by eachother, get 7/85 and convert it to a decimal.

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