SOLUTION: A car park has 14 Volkswagen cars and 18 BMW's.There are no other cars. During the afternoon two cars are stolen - one early afternoon,the other later. Determine the probabil

Question 1143532: A car park has 14 Volkswagen cars and 18 BMW's.There are no other cars.
During the afternoon two cars are stolen - one early afternoon,the other later.

Determine the probability that:

4.1.1 Both cars were BMW's.

4.1.2 The first one stolen was a BMW and the second one a Volkswagen.
Please help me.
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, math_helper:
Answer by ikleyn(52794) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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4.1.1.

Assuming . . . bla - bla - bla . . . . = . ANSWER

4.1.2.

Assuming . . . bla - bla - bla . . . . = . ANSWER

The formulas are self-explanatory . . .

Answer by math_helper(2461) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

4.1.1 The probability that both are BMW's is
= _________

4.1.2 The probability that the first stolen was a BMW and 2nd a Volkswagen is
= ___________

The above solutions assume the cars are randomly chosen.

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