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, four white ones, and two purple ones. She grabs six of them. Find the probability of the following event, expressing it as a fraction in lowest terms. She has no more than one white one.

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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, four white ones, and
two purple ones. She grabs six of them. Find the probability of the following event, expressing it as a fraction in lowest terms.
She has no more than one white one.
Transcribed Image Text: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, four white ones, and two purple ones. She grabs six of them. Find the probability of the following event, expressing it as a fraction in lowest terms. She has no more than one white one.
Whenever Suzan sees a bag of marbles, she grabs a handful at random. She has seen a bag containing two red marbles, four 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 red ones.
Transcribed Image Text:Whenever Suzan sees a bag of marbles, she grabs a handful at random. She has seen a bag containing two red marbles, four 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 red ones.
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