SOLUTION: A bowl contains 18 white, 10 black, and 4 red buttons if two buttons are drawn randomly what is the probability that the first is red and the second is black if the buttons are d

Question 1191123: A bowl contains 18 white, 10 black, and 4 red buttons if two buttons are drawn randomly what is the probability that the first is red and the second is black if the buttons are drawn without replacement
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Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
probability first is red is (4/32), since there are 32 buttons altogether and 4 are red.
once that occurs, there are 31 buttons left, and 10 are black, so second part is 10/31.
The answer is their product or (1/8)(10/31)=10/248 or 5/124 or 0.0403.

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