SOLUTION: A bag contains 9 tomatoes of which one is rotten A sample of 3 Tomatoes is selected at random What is the probability that the sample contains the Rotten Tomato?

Question 1138787: A bag contains 9 tomatoes of which one is rotten
A sample of 3 Tomatoes is selected at random
What is the probability that the sample contains the Rotten Tomato?
Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The number of all different samples of 3 tomatoes from 9 tomatoes is   =  = 84.


It is your space of samples.


The number of triples containing one rotten tomato is   =  = 28.


      It is the number of pairs of tomatoes what you can add from remaining 9-1 = 8 tomatoes to this one rotten.



So the probability under the question is   = .   ANSWER

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