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a bag contains 6 blue marbles and 10 red marbles. If you choose one marble at random, and then another marble at random, what is the probability that both marbles are blue?

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1. first blue:
6/16
second blue
5/15
so

3/8 * 1/3 = 1/8 = 0.125

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