In: Statistics and Probability
Recall from Example 1 that whenever Suzan sees a bag of marbles, she grabs a handful at random. She has seen a bag containing four red marbles, three green ones, five white ones, and three purple ones. She grabs five of them. Find the probability of the following event, expressing it as a fraction in lowest terms. HINT [See Example 1.]
O BJECTIVE:
She has two red ones and one of each of the other colors.
Total no. of marbles in the bag = 15
Red = 4
Green = 3
White = 5
Purple = 3
She picks out 5 marbles.
Probability that she picks 2 red , 1 green , 1 Purple, 1 white =
Now Since we are calculating Probability we need to Consider all the Same colour marbles as distinct marbles.
No. of ways to pick group of r things out of n things where order does not matter is given by combination
So Total No of ways of choosing 5 marbles out of 15 marbles
No of ways to Pick 2 red out of 4 red marbles =
NO. of ways to Pick 1 green out of 3 green marbles =
No of ways to Pick 1 white out of 5 white marbles =
No of ways to Pick 1 purple out of 3 purple marbles =
NO . of way to choose 2 red , 1 green , 1 Purple, 1 white marbles together =
Required probability =