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A restaurant offers three vegetable side dishes, two fruit side dishes, and five grain-based side dishes. Each entree comes with two side dishes.

What is the approximate probability of randomly choosing one vegetable and one grain-based side dish?

0.08889
0.17778
0.16667
0.33333

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Total side dishes = 3 + 2 + 5 = 10.
Number of unordered pairs = C(10,2) = 45.
Favorable pairs = choose 1 vegetable and 1 grain = 3 * 5 = 15.
Probability = 15/45 = 1/3 ≈ 0.33333.

Answer: 0.33333.