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Question 3 • Mathematics II

A bag contains 10 red marbles, 15 yellow marbles, 5 green marbles, and 20 blue marbles. Five marbles are drawn from the bag. What is the approximate probability that exactly two of the five are blue?

Answer
A
36 percent
B
40 percent
C
1 percent
D
4 percent

Explanation

There are 20 blue marbles and 30 non-blue marbles among 50 total. The probability of exactly two blue marbles is (C(20,2) × C(30,3)) / C(50,5) = (190 × 4,060) / 2,118,760 ≈ 0.364, or about 36 percent. So the correct choice is 36 percent.

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