SOLUTION: There are 5 nickels and 6 dimes in your pocket you randomly pick a coin out of your pocket and then return it to your pocket. Then you randomly pick another coin. The first one is
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Question 1082116: There are 5 nickels and 6 dimes in your pocket you randomly pick a coin out of your pocket and then return it to your pocket. Then you randomly pick another coin. The first one is a nickel and the second coin is a dime. How do you come up with the answer 30 over 121 or 0.248 Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The probability is (5/11)(6/11)=30/121
there are 11 coins, and 5 are nickels, so it is a 5/11 chance the first coin is a nickel
same sample and probability 6/11 it is a dime. The samples are independent, in that the result of the first has no bearing upon the second. That means we multiply probabilities.
