Adam is climbing up the stairs in a building. At a certain point, Adam starts counting the steps and when he reaches the last step, he has counted 56 steps. If he knows that there are a total of 100 steps in the building, how many steps did he climb before he started counting the steps?

The number if marbles of different colors stored in a hat is listed below: 4 red marbles 10 green marbles 7 blue marbles. without looking in the hat, dan takes out a marble at random. he replaces the marble and then takes out another marble from the hat. what is the probability that dan takes out a blue marble in both draws?