Same colour from two different jars
Question
One jar contains blue and red balls; a second jar contains blue and red balls. A single ball is drawn at random from each jar, the two draws being independent. Find the chance that both drawn balls share a colour.
Short answer
. The draws are independent, so add the two matching cases: both blue has probability and both red has probability , for a total of .
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions
- Cumulative Distribution Functions
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