A bowl is full of marbles. There are 4 red marbles, 3 yellow, and 5 green marbles. Using this information answer the following questions.

What is the probability of selecting a red marble, then a yellow marble without replacement? Write your answer as a fraction.

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A bowl is full of marbles. There are 4 red marbles, 3 yellow, and 5 green marbles. Using this information answer the following questions.

What is the probability of selecting a red marble, then a yellow marble without replacement? Write your answer as a fraction.

aveline · Answer

What is the probability of selecting a red marble?
After you remove the red marble, how many marbles are left?

kaynick · Answer

11?

aveline · Answer

Sorry DC.
The chance of selecting a red marble is 4/12. Afterward, there are 11 marbles left. This means that the chance of selecting a yellow marble would be 3/11.
Your answer is 4/12*3/11