SOLUTION: A drawer of loose socks contains 2 red socks, 2 green socks, and 6 white socks. Which best describes how to determine the probability of pulling out a white sock, not replacing it,

Question 1072190: A drawer of loose socks contains 2 red socks, 2 green socks, and 6 white socks. Which best describes how to determine the probability of pulling out a white sock, not replacing it, and pulling out another white sock?

Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
10 socks, 6 of them white
6/10 is probability of pulling out a white sock.
Then 5 of 9 socks left are white, so the probability of a second white sock is 5/9.
the joint probability is their product, or 1/3 (30/90).
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