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Question from Andrea, a student:

Suppose you have a jar containing 100 red marbles and 100 white marbles.
A) If you draw 5 marbles in a row, throwing each marble across as you
draw it, what is the probability that at least one of them was red?
B) If you draw 101 marbles in a row, throwing each one across the room
as you draw it, now what is the probability that at least one of them was
red?

Andrea,

The probability that at least one is red is 1 minus the probability that they are all white.

Does that help?

If you need more help write back,
Harley

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