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Question 875639: Dean is getting ready for a night on the town. He knows that he has five pairs of socks in his drawer. The pairs all have different designs. Unfortunately, Dean was in a hurry when he put his laundry away, and he didn't have time to match the socks, so they are all mixed up in the drawer.
There's a power outage, so Dean can't see the socks in the drawer. He takes two individual socks from the drawer (without replacing them). What is the probability he has chosen a pair? Found 2 solutions by edjones, ewatrrr:Answer by edjones(8007) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Take only one sock out of the drawer.
Nine remain.
The probability that you will pick the matching sock is 1/9.
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Ed
