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Ben has a basket of 5 red socks, 3 yellow socks, and 2 green socks. What is the theoretical probability that if he randomly selects a sock from the basket it will be red?

User Vidstige
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the probability of pen being red is,


p=(^5C_1)/(10C_1)


p=(5)/(10)=(1)/(2)=0.5

so the answer is 0.5

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