SOLUTION: A cooler contains 12 bottles of apple juice and 18 bottles of orange juice. You reach in and without looking pull 2 bottles. What is the probability that one bottle is apple juice

Question 577272: A cooler contains 12 bottles of apple juice and 18 bottles of orange juice. You reach in and without looking pull 2 bottles. What is the probability that one bottle is apple juice and one bottle is orange juice?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A cooler contains 12 bottles of apple juice and 18 bottles of orange juice. You reach in and without looking pull 2 bottles. What is the probability that one bottle is apple juice and one bottle is orange juice?
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# of ways to succeed: 12*18 = 216
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# of random bottle pairs: 30C2 = 435
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P(apple and orange) = 216/435
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cheers,
Stan H.
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