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Question 1155110: A jar contains seven blue marbles and five red marbles. Suppose you choose a marble at random, and do not replace it. Then you choose a second marble. Find the probability of the following event.
Both of the selected marbles are red. Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! There are 7 +5 = 12 marbles in the jay
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Probability of both marbles selected are red = (5/12) * (4/11) = 5/33
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