In a jar are 10 marbles: 4 red, 5 blue, and 1 yellow. Why can we use the special addition rule to calculate the probability that a single marble drawn from the jar will be either red or yellow? What is the probability?
1 Answer
Jan 1, 2015
The general addition rule states that:
However, in cases where two events are mutually exclusive, such as different colors of solid marbles on a single draw, then
In this case,