SOLUTION: mildred has a bag of coins. the bag contains 10 dimes, 5 nickels, and 1 penney. she will randomly select 2 coin from the bag one at a time without replacement. what is the probabil

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Question 1139174: mildred has a bag of coins. the bag contains 10 dimes, 5 nickels, and 1 penney. she will randomly select 2 coin from the bag one at a time without replacement. what is the probability that mildred will select a dime first and then a penny?
Answer by ikleyn(52785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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In all, there are  10 + 5 + 1 = 16 coins.


The probability to randomly select dime first is  .


Then only 16-1 = 15 coins remained.


The probability to randomly select penny is now  .


The probability to select a dime first and then the penny is   =  = 0.041667 = 4.1667%.    ANSWER

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