document.write( "Question 1202236: Your drawer contains 9 red socks and 7 green socks. It’s too dark to see which are which so when you grab them you are randomly selecting socks. The probability that the first two you pick are both red socks is \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( ". . . is   =  =  =  = 0.3 = 30%.    ANSWER\r\n" );
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document.write( "The remarkable number of 16 in this problem is the full number of socks in the drawer initially:  16 = 9 + 7.\r\n" );
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