Question

a radio disc jockey has 8 songs on this upcoming hours playlist: 2 are rock songs, 3 are reggae songs, and 3 are country songs, The disc jockey randomly chooses the first song to play, and then she randomly chooses the second song from the remaining ones. what is the probability that both songs are rock songs? write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

Answer 1

The disc jockey has a 1 in 8 chance of randomly choosing any of the 8 songs for the first song. After the first song is chosen, the disc jockey has a 1 in 7 chance of randomly choosing any of the remaining 7 songs for the second song.