SOLUTION: Mark has pairs of pants in three different colors,blue,black and brown.He has 5 colored shirts: a white,a red,and the rest are of different colors.What is the probability that she

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Question 1067052: Mark has pairs of pants in three different colors,blue,black and brown.He has 5 colored shirts: a white,a red,and the rest are of different colors.What is the probability that she will wear a blue or a red shirt?
Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I'm assuming that you mean blue pants or red shirt?
Because you didn't specify whether he had a blue shirt.
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He has a possibility of
pants/shirts combinations.
There are 5 blue pant/shirt combinations.
There are 3 pant/red shirt combinations.
There is 1 blue pant/red shirt combination.
That makes a total of

So, blue pant or red shirt probability,


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