Question 1060954: An ice chest contains 7 cans of apple juice, 8 cans of grape juice, 8 cans of orange juice, and 6 cans of mango juice. Suppose that you reach into the container and randomly select three cans in succession. Find the probability of selecting three cans of apple juice
Answer by KMST(5328)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Initially there are  cans of apple juice,
out of a total of  cans,
so the probability of the first can picked being apple juice is  .
After that, there are  cans in the ice chest,
including  cans of apple juice,
so the probability picking a second can of apple juice is  .
After getting  cans of apple juice out of the ice chest,
There are  cans of juice in the ice chest,
including  cans of apple juice,
so the probability picking a third can of apple juice is  .
The probabiulity of that series of events is
 .
Rounding to 4 decimal places, we get the approximate result
 , or about 1% .
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