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Question 280335: Eliza's lunch bag contains 3 chocolate, 6 sugar and 1 lemon cookie. she takes 2 cookies from the bag as a snack. find the probobility eliza did not take 2 sugar cookies from the bag. Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Eliza's lunch bag contains 3 chocolate, 6 sugar and 1 lemon cookie. she takes 2 cookies from the bag as a snack. find the probability eliza did not take 2 sugar cookies from the bag.
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# of ways to get 2 sugar cookies: 6C2 = 15
# of possible outcomes: 10C2 = 45
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P(not getting 2 sugar cookies) = (45-15)/45 = 30/45 = 2/3
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Stan H.
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