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Two red then two blue jellybeans

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A bag has 66 red and 1010 blue jellybeans. A child pulls out four of them, one at a time and at random, without putting any back. What is the chance that the first two are red and the last two are blue?

Short answer

45/72845/728. Multiply the sequential probabilities: 616⋅515⋅1014⋅913=270043680=45728\tfrac{6}{16}\cdot\tfrac{5}{15}\cdot\tfrac{10}{14}\cdot\tfrac{9}{13}=\tfrac{2700}{43680}=\tfrac{45}{728}.

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