Question 1195893: Kara’s shirt collection is shown below. If her shirts are jumbled in a drawer, then determine the probability that Kara randomly draws each of the following:
2 pink shirt, 1 purple shirt, 1 green shirt, 1 short-sleeved shirt
(a) a pink shirt or a purple shirt
(b) a pink shirt or a short-sleeved shirt
Found 2 solutions by ikleyn, greenestamps:
Answer by ikleyn(52786)   (Show Source):
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The total number of shirts is 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 5.
In both cases (a) and (b), the same formula works
P =  .
In case (a), the number of favorable outcomes is 2+1 = 3.
In case (b), the number of favorable outcomes is 2+1 = 3 (the same).
THEREFORE, in both cases P =  = 0.6 = 60%. ANSWER
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Answer by greenestamps(13200)  (Show Source):
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Note that the problem is very poorly constructed; as presented it can't be answered definitively.
The response from the other tutor assumes that the short-sleeved shirt is neither pink nor purple nor green, making a total of 5 shirts.
But if the short-sleeved shirt is either one of the pink shirts, or the purple or the green shirt, then there are only 4 shirts, making the answers to the questions different.
ANSWERS: We don't know, because the given information is not defined well enough.
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