SOLUTION: Grace has 16 socks in her sock drawer. 4 socks are white, 6 are black, and 6 are blue. If Grace pulls a sock out of the drawer without looking and it is blue, what is the probabili
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Question 195160: Grace has 16 socks in her sock drawer. 4 socks are white, 6 are black, and 6 are blue. If Grace pulls a sock out of the drawer without looking and it is blue, what is the probability that she will get a blue sock if she picks another sock without looking? Assume that Grace does not put the first blue sock back in the drawer before she picks the second sock.
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Once she pulls a blue one on the first try, there are only 5 blue socks left in the drawer now containing only 15 socks, so probability
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