SOLUTION: Two marbles are drawn randomly one after the other without replacement from a jar that contains 6 red marbles, 8 white marbles, and 2 yellow marbles. Find the probability of the fo

Question 842040: Two marbles are drawn randomly one after the other without replacement from a jar that contains 6 red marbles, 8 white marbles, and 2 yellow marbles. Find the probability of the following events. What is the probability that a yellow marble will not be chosen at all?
Found 2 solutions by Fombitz, stanbon:
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Without choosing yellow the possible choices are
RR:
WW:
RW:
WR:
So then the probabilities add to,

Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Probability-and-statistics/842040 (2014-02-16 21:54:24): Two marbles are drawn randomly one after the other without replacement from a jar that contains 6 red marbles, 8 white marbles, and 2 yellow marbles. Find the probability of the following events. What is the probability that a yellow marble will not be chosen at all?
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# of ways to succeed::: 14C2 = 91
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# of random pairs::: 16C2 = 120
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Ans:: 91/120
Cheers.
Stan H.
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