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mary has a bag that contains 6 green marbles, 9 red, and 6 blue, without looking she draws a marble?

from the bag. she puts the marble back in the bag and then draws another marble out of the bag. What is the probability that Mary with draw a red marble followed by a blue marble?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    9/21 x 6/21

    Chance of a red marble times chance of a blue marble

    54/441

    12.3%

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    There are 21 marbles in total, so the probability of drawing a red marble on the first draw is 9/21. She puts this back to make a bag of 21 marbles again, and then tries to draw a blue marble. The probabiltiy of that is 6/21.

    So to find the probability (which isn't the same as a percent) that Mary draws a red marble first and a blue marble second, multiply the two probabilities:

    9/21 * 6/21 = (3/7) * (2/7) = 6/49.

  • 1 decade ago

    3/7ths of the time she'll draw a red marble and 2/7ths of the time she'll draw a blue marble. When multiplied, it's 6/49ths of the time she'll draw a red marble then a blue marble... or about 12.24% of the time.

  • 1 decade ago

    2/7*3/7= 6/49

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  • 1 decade ago

    That depends..I know it's not good to put all your marbles in one basket..or is that eggs.

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