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A gumball machine is filled with 20 red and 35 blue gumballs. If you picked five gumballs (without replacing any), what is the probability of getting all red ones

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User Jerry Li
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0.45%

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The total number of gumballs is:

  • 20 (red) + 35 (blue) = 55

The probability of drawing 1 red gumball is 20/55.

After drawing 1 red gumball, you have 19 red gumballs left out of a total of 54, so the probability becomes 19/54.

The third red gumball has a probability of 18/53.

The fourth has a probability of 17/52.

The fifth has a probability of 16/51.

To find the probability of drawing five red gumballs in a row, you multiply the individual probabilities together:

  • (20/55) * (19/54) * (18/53) * (17/52) * (16/51) = 0.004456 or 0.45%.

Therefore, the probability of drawing five red gumballs in a row is 0.45%.

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