Question

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?

Answer 1

0.352
or 6/17

Explanation:

There are 17 marbles in all. There are 6 blue ones, so that means there's a probability of getting 6 out of 17, which is 6/17. To get the decimal I just divided 17 into 6 and rounded.