SOLUTION: A deck of 40 cards contains 10 green cards, 29 blue cards, and 1 red card. The first card you draw is the red card. You draw 6 other cards without replacement. What is the pro

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Question 207618: A deck of 40 cards contains 10 green cards, 29 blue cards, and 1 red card.
The first card you draw is the red card.
You draw 6 other cards without replacement.
What is the probability that at least one of those 6 cards is green?

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20054) About Me  (Show Source):
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A deck of 40 cards contains 10 green cards, 29 blue cards, and 1 red card.
The first card you draw is the red card.

So what you have now is a deck of 39 cards containing 10 
green cards and 29 blue cards.

You draw 6 other cards without replacement.
What is the probability that at least one of those 6 cards is green?

We use the complement event, and then subtract its probability from 1.

The complement event is to draw 6 non-green cards in a row.

There are 29 non-green cards, so the probability of drawing
a non-green card the first time is 29%2F39.

Now there are 28 non-green cards, so the probability of drawing
a non-green card the second time is 29%2F38.

Now there are 27 non-green cards, so the probability of drawing
a non-green card the third time is 29%2F37.

Now there are 26 non-green cards, so the probability of drawing
a non-green card the fourth time is 29%2F37.

Now there are 25 non-green cards, so the probability of drawing
a non-green card the fifth time is 29%2F36.

Now there are 24 non-green cards, so the probability of drawing
a non-green card the sixth time is 28%2F35.

So the probability of drawing a non-green card each of those
six times is the product of those probabilities

%2829%2F39%29%2829%2F38%29%2829%2F37%29%2829%2F36%29%2829%2F35%29%2829%2F34%29=.2532145153

Then 1-.2532145153=0.7467854847

Edwin