Question

I have two bags of counters. The first bag contains two red counters and one blue counter. The second bag contains one red counter, one blue counter and one yellow counter.

I take one counter from both bags.

a) what is the probability that the two will be the same?

b) What is the probability that exactly one of the counters will be red?

Answer 1

Answer:

(a) - 4/6=2/3

(b) - 3/6= 1/2