SOLUTION: Suppose your top drawer contains different colored socks: 10 are white, 8 are black, 14 are pink, and 12 are blue. All socks in the drawer are loose (unpaired). In the morning, you

Question 1047939: Suppose your top drawer contains different colored socks: 10 are white, 8 are black, 14 are pink, and 12 are blue. All socks in the drawer are loose (unpaired). In the morning, you randomly select two socks, one at a time. Calculate the following probabilities, writing your answer either as a decimal or a fraction.
(a) What is the probability that you get a blue pair of socks?
(b) What is the probability that you do not get a blue pair of socks?

(c) What is the probability that you get either a white pair or a blue pair of socks?

(d) What is the probability that you get one black sock and one white sock?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!



44 Socks: 10 are white, 8 are black, 14 are pink, and 12 are blue

a) P(Bpair) =  = 3/43

b) 1 - P(Bpair) = 1 - 3/43 = 40/43

c)  +  =  Use Your calculator

d)              +            

d) Drawing Black before White one   + Drawing white one first and then Black    

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