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, two green ones, four white ones, and three purple ones. She grabs eight of them. Find the probability of the following event, expressing it as a fraction in lowest terms. HINT [See Example 1.] She has all the red ones.
Recall from Example 1 that whenever Suzan sees a bag of marbles, she grabs a handful at random. She has seen a bag containing three red marbles, five green ones, four white ones, and three purple ones. She grabs seven of them. Find the probability of the following event, expressing it as a fraction in lowest terms. HINT [See Example 1.]
She has at least one green one.
1)
She has all the red ones =P(selcet 4 from 4 red and 4 from rest of 9) =(4C4)*(9C4)/(13C8)
=14/143
2)
She has at least one green one =1-P(no green one) =1-(10C7)/(15C7) =421/429