SOLUTION: You order twelve burritos to go from a Mexican restaurant, five with hot peppers and seven without. However, the restau-rant forgot to label them. If you pick three burritos at ran

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Question 1190533: You order twelve burritos to go from a Mexican restaurant, five with hot peppers and seven without. However, the restau-rant forgot to label them. If you pick three burritos at ran-dom, find the probability of each event in Exercises 23 - 30. 23. All have hot peppers.

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You order twelve burritos to go from a Mexican restaurant, five with hot peppers and seven without.
However, the restau-rant forgot to label them. If you pick three burritos at ran-dom,
find the probability highlight%28cross%28of_each_event%29%29 highlight%28cross%28in_Exercises_233023%29%29 that all have hot peppers.
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    P = %285%2F12%29%2A%284%2F11%29%2A%283%2F10%29 = 60%2F1320 = 1%2F22.    ANSWER

Solved.

The formula in my post is SELF-EXPLANATORY.

The number 12 is the sum 5 + 7.