A bag contains five red marbles and five blue marbles. You randomly pick a marble and then return it to the bag before picking another marble. The first marble is red and the second marble is blue.
a. 1/4 = 0.25 *****
b. 21/55 = 0.382
c. 1/17 = 0.059
d. 14/55 = 0.255
Thank you
What is the question?
That was the whole problem It does not make sense to me because it does not ask a question.
Maybe the question is: What is the probability of getting a red marble first and then a blue marble second?
There are a total of 10 marbles.
The probability of getting a red marble 5/10 = 1/2.
Then you put that red marble back, so the total is 10 marbles again.
The second try, the probability of getting a blue marble 5/10 = 1/2.
When you want to know what the probability of two events happening one after the other, you multiply each events probability.
The probability of getting a red marble AND THEN a blue marble: 1/2 * 1/2 = 1/4