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A basket contains 11 pieces of fruit: 4 apples, 5 oranges, and 2 bananas. Jonas takes a piece of fruit at random from the basket, and then Beth takes a piece at random. What is the probability that Jonas will get an orange and Beth will get an apple?

 Oct 7, 2015

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Jonas gets an orange, 5/11 chance. Since Jonas took a fruit from the basket, subtract 1 from the number of oranges as well as from the total number of fruit. Beth gets an apple, 4/10 chance.

 

Multiply the two probabilities together.

 

5/11 * 4/10 = 20/110 = 2/11

 Oct 7, 2015
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Jonas gets an orange, 5/11 chance. Since Jonas took a fruit from the basket, subtract 1 from the number of oranges as well as from the total number of fruit. Beth gets an apple, 4/10 chance.

 

Multiply the two probabilities together.

 

5/11 * 4/10 = 20/110 = 2/11

LambLamb Oct 7, 2015

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