A bag of M&M's has 4 red, 6 green, 2 blue, and 5 yellow M&M's. Suppose you randomly select two M&M's from the bag one at a time with replacing the first M&M. Let A = first M&M is green and B = second M&M is red. Find the following probabilities. (Write your answers as fractions.) a) P(A) =  b) P(B | A) =   c) P(A and B) =

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A bag of M&M's has 4 red, 6 green, 2 blue, and 5 yellow M&M's. Suppose you randomly select two M&M's from the bag one at a time with replacing the first M&M.

Let A = first M&M is green and B = second M&M is red.

Find the following probabilities. (Write your answers as fractions.)

a) P(A) = 

b) P(B | A) =  

c) P(A and B) =    

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