SOLUTION: A box contain 10 black marble, 8 white marble and 6 yellow marble. If a ball is drawn at random, what is the probability of getting black marble and white marble?

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Question 1192684: A box contain 10 black marble, 8 white marble and 6 yellow marble. If a ball is drawn at random, what is the probability of getting black marble and white marble?
Answer by ikleyn(52778) About Me  (Show Source):
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A box contain 10 black highlight%28cross%28marble%29%29 marbles, 8 white highlight%28cross%28marble%29%29 marbles and 6 yellow highlight%28cross%28marble%29%29 marbles.
If a ball is drawn at random, what is the probability of getting black marble and white marble?
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The problem says that  ONE  ball is drawn at random,

but the question asks about probability of getting two balls,  black and white.


I find this formulation   I L L O G I C A L . . .


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                    To the managers of this project  ( ! )


As  I  notice,  illogical messages arrive to this forum,  created by persons illiterated in  Math.

Examples are these two last posts

https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/Probability-and-statistics/Probability-and-statistics.faq.question.1192684.html

https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/playground/test.faq.question.1192683.htm


I ask you please to take all necessary measures and remove the person/(persons) who created these posts
from their positions in the project due to their inability to do their job properly.