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Your friend brings 15 chocolate cupcakes and 15 vanilla cupcakes to school. Students will take turns picking a pair of cupcakes at random. What is the probability that the first student will pick 2 chocolate
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Your friend brings 15 chocolate cupcakes and 15 vanilla cupcakes to school. Students will take turns picking a pair of cupcakes at random. What is the probability that the first student will pick 2 chocolate cupcakes?

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I believe it is 1/3, but probability is not my strong suit.
User RQuestions
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Probability of 1st chocolate = 15/30 = 1/2
Probability of 2nd after picking chocolate = 14/29

Multiply the 2 probabilities together
1/2 * 14/29 = 14/58 = 7/29
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