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In a certain Algebra 2 class of 27 students, 11 of them play basketball and 18 of them play baseball. There are 4 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, S = baseball. Using inclusion-exclusion:

|B ∪ S| = |B| + |S| − |B ∩ S|.

There are 27 students and 4 play neither, so |B ∪ S| = 27 − 4 = 23. Thus

23 = 11 + 18 − |B ∩ S| ⇒ |B ∩ S| = 29 − 23 = 6.

Probability a randomly chosen student plays both = 6/27 = 2/9.