Homework Help: math

Posted by juju on Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 8:32pm.

an urn contains 6 purple marbles and 4 pink marbles. a marble is drawn at random and not replaced. then a second marble is drawn. what is the probability that both marbles are purple?

math - PsyDAG, Thursday, February 14, 2013 at 8:42pm
If the events are independent, the probability of both/all events occurring is determined by multiplying the probabilities of the individual events.

6/10 * 5/9 = ?

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