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Every summer, Bonnie goes on a week-long canoe trip with her childhood camp friends. After the tri she usually purchases some oars from the destination city. Her collection of oars is organized by yea and type of wood. Spruce wood Ash wood 2010 3 2 2. 2011 4 2 2012 2 . 2 What is the probability that a randomly selected oar was purchased in 2012 and was made from a wood? Simplify any fractions.

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To find the probability, fincd the total amount of oars Bonnie has


\begin{gathered} 3+2+4+2+2+2 \\ 15 \end{gathered}

if she has 15 oars and 2 of them were made of ash wood and bought in 2012, the probability that one of them is randomly selected is


(2)/(15)

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