SOLUTION: At a candy store, there are 200 pieces of bubble gum in a bubble gum machine. * Forty pieces are blue. * Thirty-five pieces are red. * Thirty pieces are green.

Question 412350: At a candy store, there are 200 pieces of bubble gum in a bubble gum machine.
* Forty pieces are blue.
* Thirty-five pieces are red.
* Thirty pieces are green.
* Fifty pieces are yellow.
* Forty-five pieces are white.
If two pieces of bubble gum are purchased, what is the probability that both pieces will be yellow?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
At a candy store, there are 200 pieces of bubble gum in a bubble gum machine.
* Forty pieces are blue.
* Thirty-five pieces are red.
* Thirty pieces are green.
* Fifty pieces are yellow.
* Forty-five pieces are white.
If two pieces of bubble gum are purchased, what is the probability that both pieces will be yellow?
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P(2 yellow) = 50C2/200C2 = 1225/19900 =49/796
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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