A bag contains 5 blue marbles, 4 white marbles, and 3 red marbles. If three marbles are randomly selected from the bag, what is the probability that the marbles selected will be of the same color? Express your answer as a common fraction.
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How I did it:
5 + 4 + 3 = 12 total number of marbles
that means 12 choose 3 = 220 ways to choose 3 marbles
Now the question asks how many ways will the marbles be the same color
So for red
there is only 1 way
For White,
there is 4 ways of choosing 3 out of 4
And for blue
there is 10 ways of choosing 3 out of 5
So is 1 + 4 + 10 = 15 ways you can pick three marbles of the same color
So 15/220 = 3/44
Not great at probability, but we could either draw 3 red marbles, 3 blue marbles or 3 white marbles
P(red) = (3/12) (2/11) (1/10) = 6 / 1320
P( blue) = (5/12) (4/11) (3/10) = 60/1320
P(white) = (4/12) (3/11)(2/10) = 24 / 1320
So.....the total probability = [ 6 + 60 + 24 ] /1320 = 90 / 1320 = 9 /132 = 3 / 44
Good job, CU [ At least we got the same answer !!! ]