A bag contains 5 red cubes and 7 white cubes. Celinda will select one cube, put it in her pocket, and then select a second cube. Which expression gives the probability that she will select two red cubes? A. B. C. D.

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Howard Bauer

Mathematics

29 May, 10:23

A bag contains 5 red cubes and 7 white cubes. Celinda will select one cube, put it in her pocket, and then select a second cube. Which expression gives the probability that she will select two red cubes? A. B. C. D.

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Beckham Pollard · Answer 1

The number of ways of picking up a red cube out of 12 cubes are 5/12. Number of ways of picking up a second red cube is 4/11.

Thus probability of picking up 2 red cubes = 5/12 * 4/11 = 20/121.

20 / 121 =.165 or. 17

So the probability of Celinda getting two red cubes is. 17.