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In a certain Algebra 2 class of 28 students, 11 of them play basketball and 16 of them play baseball. There are 10 students who play neither sport. What is the probability that a student chosen randomly from the class plays both basketball and baseball?

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Let B = basketball, C = baseball. By inclusion–exclusion,

|B ∪ C| = |B| + |C| − |B ∩ C|.

There are 28 − 10 = 18 students who play at least one sport, so

18 = 11 + 16 − |B ∩ C| ⇒ |B ∩ C| = 27 − 18 = 9.

Thus the probability a randomly chosen student plays both is 9/28.