[Math] Probability of randomly selected balls being different colors

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An urn contains 5 red and 6 blue and 8 green balls. 3 balls are randomly selected from the urn, find the probability that they are all of the different colors if the balls are drawn without replacement

Best Answer

Since $19$ is the total number of balls, then there are ${19 \choose 3}$ ways to choose 3 balls if you ignore the ordering of the balls. The number of ways to get 3 balls of different color (ignoring the ordering) is $5 \cdot 6 \cdot 8$. Does that help?