The pizza parlor is running a special on 3-toppings pizzas. The topping choices include pepperoni, sausage, bacon mushrooms, onions, green peppers, and black olives. The next customer who orders 3-topping pizza tells the chef to randomly choose 3 different toppings for their pizza. What is the probability that customer will get a pizza topped with pepperoni, mushrooms, green peppers? The teacher told us the solution is 1/35 but he wants an explanation of why is that solution correct.

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Darrell Washington

12 January, 10:49

The pizza parlor is running a special on 3-toppings pizzas. The topping choices include pepperoni, sausage, bacon mushrooms, onions, green peppers, and black olives. The next customer who orders 3-topping pizza tells the chef to randomly choose 3 different toppings for their pizza. What is the probability that customer will get a pizza topped with pepperoni, mushrooms, green peppers? The teacher told us the solution is 1/35 but he wants an explanation of why is that solution correct.

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Espinoza · Answer 1

Well there are 6 toppings. For one person to select sausage, it is / frac{1}{6}. For two people, multiply them together and the probability is / frac{1}{36}