Question

There is a bag filled with 3 blue and 5 red marbles.

A marble is taken at random from the bag, the colour is noted and then it is not replaced.
Another marble is taken at random.
What is the probability of getting exactly 1 red?

Answer 1

4/6 chance

One is taken at random, we do not know the colour so we just take away 1 from both colours, this leaves us with 4/6 chance.