Reds and Blues
  • A box contains 30 red balls and 50 blue balls. Six balls are randomly selected from the box without replacement. What is the probability of selecting a red ball followed by a blue ball, then a red ball followed by a blue ball, then a red ball followed by a blue ball? Round your answer to the nearest thousandth.

Answer:    
  Please enter a numerical answer
(ex. 1000 or 2.033) and click GO.		    

Contest problems and answers provided by:

David Rock
rock_david@colstate.edu
Columbus State University

Doug Brumbaugh
brumbad@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
University of Central Florida