In: Statistics and Probability
Solution:
Given: The marbles in the bag are 5 red, 5 blue, 5 yellow and 5 green. Thus total marbles in a bag are = 20 marbles.
Part a) Find the probability of pulling out 2 blue marbles from the bag assuming the first one is not replaced.
Since for first draw , we have 5 blue marbles out of 20 marbles and we are not relacing this blue marble, so we have 4 blue marbles and total 19 marbles in that bag.
thus probability of second blue marble would be 4/19
thus
Part b) Find the probability of pulling out 2 blue marbles from the bag assuming that the first one is replaced.
Here we are replacing first selected marble in the bag, hence there is no change in total marbles and number of blue marbles in the bag for second draw.
Thus we have: