Tree diagram
A tree diagram lays out a multi-stage chance process as branches, and the probability of any path is the product of the branches along it.
Branches at the first stage carry the probabilities of the starting events, and branches further out carry conditional probabilities given the path so far. Multiplying along a path is just the general multiplication rule drawn in picture form. From a bag of 3 red and 2 blue chips, drawing two without replacement gives . To get the probability of a result that several paths lead to, add those path probabilities.
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