SOLUTION: In a large bag of marbles, 25% of them are red. A child chooses 4 marbles from this bag. If the child chooses the marbles at random, what is the chance that child gets exactly thre

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Question 1156879: In a large bag of marbles, 25% of them are red. A child chooses 4 marbles from this bag. If the child chooses the marbles at random, what is the chance that child gets exactly three red marbles.
Answer by ikleyn(52848)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Of 4 marbles, 3 are red; one is not red.


The probability is  P =  =  = 0.046875.         ANSWER


It is the binomial type probability distribution.

The number of trial n= 4; the probability of the success trial is  0.25,  and the number of success trial k = 3. 

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