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In essence there are only 3 possibilities:
RRY
RYR
YRR
The sum of the odds of these three things is the possibility of one of them happening. The order does matter in this, because which one you draw first affects the odds of which one you draw second in this scenario.
There's 20 balls to begin with, and each time we remove a ball we're decreasing the total number, so the odds break down like this:
RRY:
12/20 * 11/19 * 8/18
RYR:
12/20 * 8/19 * 11/18
YRR:
8/20 * 12/19 * 11/18
Because of the specific circumstances the odds of each are actually the same (because we're decreasing the total pool and the individual pools at the same rate in all three, essentially they're the same numbers in different orders). Each has a roughly 15.2% chance, and adding those odds together gives us the odds of one of them happening (but it doesn't matter which one).
Totaling to a roughly 46.2% chance of drawing some combination of the three.
For comparison, there's a 19.2% chance that they come up as RRR, and a mere 4.9% chance that they come up YYY. The odds of two yellows and a red, meanwhile is about 29.4. Note that, because of my rounding this only totals out to 99.7%, but you get the picture. If you need the odds to a more specific decimal point, you can plug in the numbers and get the full totals.
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What s the probability of not picking a green marble in a jar that contains 5 red 6 green and 4 blue?
The answer depends on how many marbles are picked and on whether or not they are returned to the jar before picking the next one. Since you have not bothered to provide any information on either of these aspects, I cannot provide a more useful answer.
A deck of cards has 3 blue 4 black and 6 purple You pick 2 cards from the deck cards are not returned to the deck after they are picked whats the probability that two blue are picked?
First you have 3 blues out of 13 cards, so the first card has probability 3/13. Then you have 2 blues out of 12 cards, so the second card has probability 2/12 or 1/6. The probability of both being blue is the product of these probabilities: P(two blues) = P(first blue) * P(second blue) = (3/13) * (1/6) = 3/78 or 1/26
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