Whenever Suzan sees a bag of marbles, she grabs a handful at random. She has seen a bag containing three red marbles, three green ones, five white ones, and one purple one. 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.

Whenever Suzan sees a bag of marbles, she grabs a handful at random. She has seen a bag containing three red marbles, three green ones, five white ones, and one purple one. 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.

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134753119

Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

Section: Chapter Questions

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