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Math Prize 2014 Problem 13

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September 29, 2014
probability

Problem Statement

Deepali has a bag containing 10 red marbles and 10 blue marbles (and nothing else). She removes a random marble from the bag. She keeps doing so until all of the marbles remaining in the bag have the same color. Compute the probability that Deepali ends with exactly 3 marbles remaining in the bag.