SOLUTION: A bag contains 9 tomatoes of which one is rotten
A sample of 3 Tomatoes is selected at random
What is the probability that the sample contains the Rotten Tomato?
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A sample of 3 Tomatoes is selected at random
What is the probability that the sample contains the Rotten Tomato?
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Question 1138787: A bag contains 9 tomatoes of which one is rotten
A sample of 3 Tomatoes is selected at random
What is the probability that the sample contains the Rotten Tomato? Answer by ikleyn(52803) (Show Source):
The number of all different samples of 3 tomatoes from 9 tomatoes is = = 84.
It is your space of samples.
The number of triples containing one rotten tomato is = = 28.
It is the number of pairs of tomatoes what you can add from remaining 9-1 = 8 tomatoes to this one rotten.
So the probability under the question is = . ANSWER
