Question

A basket contains 5 green lollipops, 12 red lollipops, and 7 orange lollipops. When a lollipop is taken from the basket, it is not replaced. What is P(orange, then orange)?
A.42/576
B.42/552
C.7/24
D.14/48
Ithink it is C...?

Answer 1

prob = (7/24)(6/23)
= 42/552
= 7/92

looks like B, but they should have reduced the fraction to lowest terms.

Answer 2

thank you

Answer 3

they usually dont reduce it, so i say B.

Answer 4

so is the right one the simplified version or no?

Answer 5

The simplified version is technically the correct answer, so the correct answer is B (42/552), but it's common for math problems to be left in unsimplified form as well.