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CAPE Applied Mathematics Unit 2 · 2011 · Paper 2 · Question 4(c)(iii)

A box contains 9 marbles of which 4 are white, 2 are red and 3 are black. Three marbles are to be drawn at random, without replacement, from this box.

Calculate the probability that the THIRD marble will be white.

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