SOLUTION: A bag contains 6 red marbles, 5 blue marbles and 7 green marbles. If three marbles are drawn out of the bag, what is the exact probability that all three marbles drawn will be gree

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Question 1195867: A bag contains 6 red marbles, 5 blue marbles and 7 green marbles. If three marbles are drawn out of the bag, what is the exact probability that all three marbles drawn will be green?

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A bag contains 6 red marbles, 5 blue marbles and 7 green marbles.
If three marbles are drawn out of the bag, what is the exact probability
that all three marbles drawn will be green?
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At the start, there are  6 + 5 + 7 = 18  marbles in the bag.

Of them, 7 marbles are green.


The probability that the first drawn marble is green equals  7%2F18.

After that, we have 17 marbles in the bag with 6 green marbles.
So, the probability that the first two drawn marbles are green equals  %287%2F18%29%2A%286%2F17%29.


Analyzing further in the same way, we find that the probability
that the first three drawn marbles are green equals 

    %287%2F18%29%2A%286%2F17%29%2A%285%2F16%29 = reduce the fractions = %287%2F3%29%2A%281%2F17%29%2A%285%2F16%29 = 35%2F816.   ANSWER

Solved.