A department store is holding a drawing to give away free shopping sprees. There are 10 customers who have entered the drawing: 2 live in the town of Gaston, 3 live in Pike, and 5 live in Wells. Two winners will be selected at random. What is the probability that the first winner lives in Pike and the second lives in Wells? Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

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Kolton Mcknight

4 November, 04:59

A department store is holding a drawing to give away free shopping sprees. There are 10 customers who have entered the drawing: 2 live in the town of Gaston, 3 live in Pike, and 5 live in Wells. Two winners will be selected at random. What is the probability that the first winner lives in Pike and the second lives in Wells? Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

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Leonard Haynes · Answer 1

The way to find probability is to add all of them together so 10

There are 3 in Pike so the probability is 3/10 Now you remove them I assume. If so then the answer is if the second lives in Wells the answer would be 5/9 if the winner is not removed which I assume is not the case then it would be 5/10 or 1/2