SOLUTION: A baby shoe box contains 7 shoes, two left-foot shoes and five right-foot shoes. If two shoes are randomly selected from the box without replacement, what is the probability

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Question 1064779: A baby shoe box contains 7 shoes, two left-foot shoes
and five right-foot shoes. If two shoes are randomly
selected from the box without replacement, what is the
probability that there will be one right-foot shoe and
one left-foot shoe selected?

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) About Me  (Show Source):
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A baby shoe box contains 7 shoes, two left-foot shoes
and five right-foot shoes. If two shoes are randomly
selected from the box without replacement, what is the
probability that there will be one right-foot shoe and
one left-foot shoe selected?
Two ways to do it:

First way:



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Second way:

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Edwin