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A science class has 5 girls and 7 boys in the seventh grade and 5 girls and 5 boys in the eighth grade. The teacher randomly selects a seventh grader and an

eighth grader from the class for a competition. What is the probability that the students she selects are both boys?
Write your answer as a fraction in simplest form.

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User Nicholle
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We have a total of 10 boys & 8 Girls, then the sample space consist of 18 elements.

P(selecting 1 boy) = (total number of boys/by 18) = P(boy)=10/18=5/9

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