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You have a jar of candy with 24 pieces of chocolate candies and 14 lollies. You take one piece of candy from the jar, put it back and then take another from the jar at random. What is the probability you
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You have a jar of candy with 24 pieces of chocolate candies and 14 lollies. You take one piece of candy from the jar, put it back and then take another from the jar at random. What is the probability you will get 1 chocolate and 1 lollies?

User Rene Zammit
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so there is a 14/38 chance that you will get a lollie and a 24/38 chance you will get a chocolate.
all you have to do is multiply these together
14/38x24/38
=84/361
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