SOLUTION: mildred has a bag of coins. the bag contains 10 dimes, 5 nickels, and 1 penney. she will randomly select 2 coin from the bag one at a time without replacement. what is the probabil
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Question 1139174: mildred has a bag of coins. the bag contains 10 dimes, 5 nickels, and 1 penney. she will randomly select 2 coin from the bag one at a time without replacement. what is the probability that mildred will select a dime first and then a penny? Answer by ikleyn(52784) (Show Source):
In all, there are 10 + 5 + 1 = 16 coins.
The probability to randomly select dime first is .
Then only 16-1 = 15 coins remained.
The probability to randomly select penny is now .
The probability to select a dime first and then the penny is = = 0.041667 = 4.1667%. ANSWER
