SOLUTION: A canister contains 20 pieces of candy: 5 strawberry flavored, 9 watermelon flavored, and 6 mint flavored. Two are selected at random. Find each probability. P(1 strawberry and

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Question 448847: A canister contains 20 pieces of candy: 5 strawberry flavored, 9 watermelon flavored, and 6 mint flavored. Two are selected at random. Find each probability.
P(1 strawberry and 1 mint)
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A canister contains 20 pieces of candy: 5 strawberry flavored, 9 watermelon flavored, and 6 mint flavored. Two are selected at random. Find each probability.
P(1 strawberry and 1 mint)
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# of strawberry/mint pairs: 5*6 = 30
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# of random pairs: 20C2 = 190
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P(strawberry/mint) = 30/190 = 3/19
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stan H.