There are four brown shoes and 10 black shoes on the floor. your puppy cares away two shoes and puts one shoe in the trashcan and one in the laundry basket.

Question

a. What is the probability that there will be a black shoe in the trash and a brown shoe in the laundry basket?

Answer 1

If the events are independent, the probability of both/all events occurring is determined by multiplying the probabilities of the individual events.

4/14 * 10/13 = 10/14 * 4/13 = ?

The total is reduced to 13, because one shoe has already been taken.