SOLUTION: A rental agency has 12 white cars, 8 gray cars, 6 red cars,and 3 green cars for rent. Mr. Escobar rents a car, returns it because the radio is broken, and gets another car. What is

Question 1068255: A rental agency has 12 white cars, 8 gray cars, 6 red cars,and 3 green cars for rent. Mr. Escobar rents a car, returns it because the radio is broken, and gets another car. What is the probability that Mr. Escobar is given a green car and then a gray car?
Answer by Lightning_Fast(78) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Changed location to: Word Problems: Problems on percentages, ratios, and fractions.
Here you must use the Law of And.
Since this is such a basic problem, I would recommend reading the law of Or and the law of And on Math bench. Use this search query since I cannot add a link.
Internet Search: The Law of OR and the Law of AND site:mathbench.umd.edu
Since Mr. Escobar got a green car AND a gray car, we multiply, using the Law of And.
Givens:
- 12 white cars
- 8 grey cars
- 6 red cars
- 3 green cars
We now know there are 29 total cars
Thus

Multiply fractions

The probability that Mr. Escobar gets a green car and then a gray car is .

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