SOLUTION: 1. a box contains 3 yellow, 2 blue,and 4 red pencils. suppose you choose a pencil, replace, then choose another, find the probability of choosing yellow then red? 2. refer to prob

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Question 644208: 1. a box contains 3 yellow, 2 blue,and 4 red pencils. suppose you choose a pencil, replace, then choose another, find the probability of choosing yellow then red?
2. refer to problem above , find the probability of choosing blue then yellow?
3. suppose you chose a pencil from the box problem above, and then choose another pencil without replacing the first one. find probability of choosing blue, then red?
4. refer question above, find the probabilityof choosing yellow then blue

Answer by edjones(8007)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1)
3+2+4=9
3/9 * 4/9 = 12/81
.
3)
2/9 * 4/8 = 8/72 = 1/9
.
Ed

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