Whenever Suzan sees a bag of marbles, she grabs a handful at random. She has seen a bag containing three red marbles, two green ones, four white ones, and two purple ones. She grabs eight of them. Find the probability of the following event, expressing it as a fraction in lowest terms. She has at least one green one.

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Whenever Suzan sees a bag of marbles, she grabs a handful at random. She has seen a bag containing three red marbles,
two green ones, four white ones, and two purple ones. She grabs eight of them. Find the probability of the following event,
expressing it as a fraction in lowest terms.
She has at least one green one.
Transcribed Image Text:Whenever Suzan sees a bag of marbles, she grabs a handful at random. She has seen a bag containing three red marbles, two green ones, four white ones, and two purple ones. She grabs eight of them. Find the probability of the following event, expressing it as a fraction in lowest terms. She has at least one green one.
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