SOLUTION: A game has 6 cards numbered 3,2,7,5,4,and 6. The cards are shuffled face down before three cards are chosen. The score is the sum of the three numbers. What is the probability that

Question 975835: A game has 6 cards numbered 3,2,7,5,4,and 6. The cards are shuffled face down before three cards are chosen. The score is the sum of the three numbers. What is the probability that the score is a one-digit number?
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

There is only one way to choose three cards from the set described so that the sum is a one digit number, namely the 2, the 3, and the 4. But there are

ways to pick 3 cards from a set of 6.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it

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