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a bowl contains eight pennies, seven nickles and ten dimes. Elyse removes one coin at random from the bowl and does not replace it. she then removes a second coin at random. what is the probability that
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a bowl contains eight pennies, seven nickles and ten dimes. Elyse removes one coin at random from the bowl and does not replace it. she then removes a second coin at random. what is the probability that both will be nickels?

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25 coins in total.

7/25 x 6/24 = 7/25 x 1/4 = 7/100 is the probability
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