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PROBABILITY PROBLEM: Can anyone check my answers for this?

Wayne has 1 ten-dollar bill, 2 five-dollar bills, and 5 one-dollar bills in his wallet.

a) Wayne randomly chooses a bill from his wallet, puts it back, then picks another bill, and puts that one back, too. What is the probability that both were five-dollar bills?
Would the answer for this be 4/16 or 1/4?

b) Wayne randomly pulls out a bill from his wallet, and then, without putting it back, randomly pulls a second bill from his wallet. He then puts both bills back into the wallet. What is the probability that both of the bills pulled out were five-dollar bills?
Would the answer for this be 2/8*1/7 = 1/28?
If I'm wrong please correct me!

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A: it would be 2 fives outta 8 then he picked one more bill out so chances are 4 fives outta 16. making it 1/4 of a probability.
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