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A brother and a sister are in the same math class. There are 8 boys and 10 girls in the class. One boy and one girl are randomly chosen. What is the probability that the brother and sister are chosen?
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A brother and a sister are in the same math class. There are 8 boys and 10 girls in the class. One boy and one girl are randomly chosen. What is the probability that the brother and sister are chosen? Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

User Marco Grassi
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Answer:

1/18

Explanation:

I think but I'm not sure

User Nadim
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Well, there are 8 boys and the brother is one of them so 1 is 12.5% of 8 and out of 10 girls, there 1 is the sister and 1 out of 10 is 10%. Now we multiply the percentages to get the answer 1/80
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