SOLUTION: whenever Suzan sees a bag of marbles, she grabs a handful at random. She has seen a bag containing three red marbles, three green ones, four white ones, and one purple one. She gra
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Question 1115108: whenever Suzan sees a bag of marbles, she grabs a handful at random. She has seen a bag containing three red marbles, three green ones, four white ones, and one purple one. She grabs five of them. Find the probability of the following event, expressing it as a fraction in lowest terms.
She has two green ones and one of each of the other colors.
Answer by greenestamps(13200) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
She has to choose...
(1) 2 of the 3 green;
(2) 1 of the 3 red;
(3) 1 of the 4 white; and
(4) 1 of the 1 purple
In all, she is choosing 5 of the total of 11.
The probability is
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