A bag contains three red marbles and eight blue marbles. Your randomly pick a marbles and then pick a second marble without returning the marbles to the bag. What is the probability that the first marble is red and the second marble is red?
There are 3 x 2 ways to choose 2 red marbles
There are 11 x 10 ways to choose 2 marbles
So, the answer is \(\color{brown}\boxed{{3 \times 2} \over {11 \times 10}}\). You have to simplify the fraction.