SOLUTION: A bookcase contains 2 statistics books and 4 biology books. If 2 books are chosen at random, the chance that both are statistics books is

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Question 463862: A bookcase contains 2 statistics books and 4 biology books. If 2 books are chosen at random, the chance that both are statistics books is
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number of ways to choose any 2 out of 6 = 6C2 = 15
number of ways to choose 2 statistics book out of 2 = 2C2 = 1

probability that both are statistics books = 1/15