Condition on whether the first selection was a red apple. Its probability is . If it was, two red apples remain among seventeen fruits; otherwise three remain. The law of total probability gives
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The same result follows from exchangeability: before either selection is observed, each ordered draw position has the original red-apple fraction , despite dependence between the draws.

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