Apples running out before oranges and peaches
Question
A basket contains 10 apples, 20 oranges and 30 peaches. Fruit is removed one piece at a time, uniformly at random. At the moment the last apple is removed, what is the probability that at least one orange and at least one peach are still in the basket?
Short answer
. We need apples to be exhausted first. If the very last fruit is a peach (prob. ), we also need the last of the apples-and-oranges to be an orange (); if the last fruit is an orange (prob. ), we need the last of apples-and-peaches to be a peach (). Total .
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- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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