Question

A basket contains 13 pieces of fruit: 5 apples, 5 oranges, and 3 bananas. Jonas takes piece of fruit at random from the basket, and then Beth takes a piece at random. What is the probability that jonas will get an orange and Beth will get an apple?

Answer 1

Well here im going to give you the process so that you can figure it out: The probability that Jonas will get an orange is 5/13.We know this because if Jonas gets an orange there are now 12 pieces of fruit remaining. Therefore the probability that Beth will get an apple is 5/12. What you need to do is to multiply these two values of probability to find the required probability. Hope this has helped