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A box of 9 gloves contains two left handed gloves and seven right handed gloves.
a: If two gloves are randomly selected from the box, without replacement, what is the probability that both gloves will be right handed?
b: If two gloves are randomly selected from the box without replacement, what is the probability that there will be one right handed glove and one left handed glove?
c: If three gloves are selected with replacement, what is the probability that all three will be left-handed?
d: If you were sampling with replacement, what would be the answers to "a" and "b"?
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A box of 9 gloves contains two left handed gloves and seven right handed gloves.
a-If two gloves are randomly selected from the box, without replacement, what is the probability that both gloves will be right handed?
First this is a combination problem.
When you select 2 gloves from 9, you have combinations.
There are 7 right handed gloves, you have choices to select 2 out of 7.
Then the probability both gloves will be right handed is
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