A bag has three times as many green marbles as there are blue. If you take 8 marbles from this bag, what is the expected number of green marbles will you get?

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Chapter10: Sequences, Series, And Probability
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A bag has three times as many green
marbles as there are blue. If you take 8
marbles from this bag, what is the expected
number of green marbles will you get?
Transcribed Image Text:A bag has three times as many green marbles as there are blue. If you take 8 marbles from this bag, what is the expected number of green marbles will you get?
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