Homework Help: Math

Posted by Kay on Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 12:14am.

If a bag contains 50 marbles with 28 red ones and 22 blue ones. A marble is picked at random from the bag.what is the probability of picking a red marble after a blue marble was picked first?

Math - Reiny, Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 8:38am
after we know that a blue one was picked, there are 21 blues left out of the remaining 49 marbles but still 28 reds, so
prob(next one red) = 28/49

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