Whenever Suzan sees a bag of marbles, she grabs a handful at random. She has seen a bag containing four red marbles, three green ones, two 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 does not have all the green ones.

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Whenever Suzan sees a bag of marbles, she grabs a handful at random. She has seen a bag containing four red marbles, three green ones, two 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 does not have all the green ones.
Transcribed Image Text:Whenever Suzan sees a bag of marbles, she grabs a handful at random. She has seen a bag containing four red marbles, three green ones, two 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 does not have all the green ones.
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