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A fruit basket contains 6 apples and 8 oranges. Sarah randomly selects one, puts it back, and then randomly selects another. What is the probability that both selections were oranges
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A fruit basket contains 6 apples and 8 oranges. Sarah randomly selects one, puts it back, and then randomly selects another. What is the probability that both selections were oranges

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Sarah chances would be 8 out of 14 and reduced to lowest term will be 4/7. The chances of selecting both as oranges would be the double (4/7) so you would have to do this
4/7 * 4/7 = 16/49
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