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the chance of 1 marble being white is 199,940,000 / 200,000,000 the chance of the 2nd marble being white would seem to be 199,939,999 / 199,999,999. No idea after that. I became a lawyer because I wasn't good at math. :) And have tried a couple online math tutors who have told me that the...

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to compute probability related to a problem I am tackling for work, and I think I have a handle on how to do it with smaller numbers, but no idea how to approach it for larger numbers. (And I need to explain the answers to a judge in simple terms). So here is...