SOLUTION: Suppose that the inside bottom of a box is painted with three colors: 1/3 of the bottom area is red, 1/6 is blue, and 1/2 is white. You toss a tiny pebble into the box without aimi
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Question 1126244: Suppose that the inside bottom of a box is painted with three colors: 1/3 of the bottom area is red, 1/6 is blue, and 1/2 is white. You toss a tiny pebble into the box without aiming and note the color on which the pebble lands. Then you toss another tiny pebble into the box without aiming and note the color on which that pebble lands.
What is the probability that both pebbles land on the color red? Answer by ikleyn(52855) (Show Source):
According to the meaning of the problem, each probability is equal to the relative area of the red part of the bottom,
so the answer to the question is = .
