Mary Katherine has a bag of 3 red apples, 5 yellow apples and 4 green apples. Mary takes a red apple out of the bag and does not replace it. What is the probability that the next apple she takes out is yellow?

Answer 1

3 red 5 yellow and 4 green.
1 red picked, leaves:
2 red 5 yellow and 4 green total 11 apples.

What would be the probability of picking a yellow out of the remaining 11, of which 5 are yellow?

Answer 2

5/11?