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This quation is for 8th grader.


George has a bag of marbles. Inside the bag are 5 red marbles, 3 green marbles, and 2 blue marbles. He draws out two marbles in a row, without replacement. What is the number of outcomes?
 
This quation is for 8th grader.


George has a bag of marbles. Inside the bag are 5 red marbles, 3 green marbles, and 2 blue marbles. He draws out two marbles in a row, without replacement. What is the number of outcomes?

count it out - assuming all the balls with same color ar indistiguishable and assuming order of drawing does not matter (i.e. drawing red ball first then a green ball is same as drawing green ball first then a red ball :

2 reds

2 greens

2 blue

1 red and 1 green

what else....
 
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