130k views
3 votes
Suppose you have five books in your bookbag. three books are novels

User Zhao
by
6.0k points

1 Answer

2 votes
the complete question in the attached figure

we know that
The probability on the first day is 3/5 since there are 3 novels out of 5 and when you take a book out at random, all of them have a equal chance of being picked. Since you returned the book to the bag, the next day too, we have the same probability.

Probability of a novel being grabbed both days is the product of the two probabilities-----> (3/5)*(3/5)----> 9/25

the answer is
9/25
Suppose you have five books in your bookbag. three books are novels-example-1
User Xerillio
by
5.9k points