Both blue and green appear in four draws with replacement
Question
A box holds six marbles, each a different colour; one is blue and one is green. You draw a marble four times, returning it to the box after each draw. What is the probability that blue and green each appear at least once among the four draws?
Short answer
. Use inclusion–exclusion on the complements: no blue has probability , as does no green, and neither has . So the answer is .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Sample Spaces, Events, and the Probability Axioms
- Conditional Probability, Total Probability, and Bayes' Rule
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