SOLUTION: Your sock drawer has four white socks, four brown socks, and two black socks.You randomly pick a sock and put it on your left foot and then pick another sock and put it on your ri

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Question 1191419: Your sock drawer has four white socks, four brown socks, and two black socks.You randomly pick a sock and put it on your left foot and then pick another sock and put it on your right foot. What is the probability that you leave the house with a white sock on your left foot and a brown sock on your right foot?

Answer by ikleyn(52768)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Your sock drawer has four white socks, four brown socks, and two black socks.
You randomly pick a sock and put it on your left foot and then pick another sock
and put it on your right foot. What is the probability that you leave the house
with a white sock on your left foot and a brown sock on your right foot?
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The total socks in the drawer is 4 + 4 + 2 = 10.


The probability to get randomly the first sock white on your left foot is .


After that, the probability to get randomly the second sock brown on your right foot is .


The probability to leave the home in two different color socks, as described, is the product


    P =  = .    ANSWER

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