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Julie box contains two gold hoop earrings and two silver hoop earrings you randomly choose to errands what is the probability that both are silver hoop earrings write your answer as a fraction to a percent round to the nearest hundredPs. The correct answer is 1/6This is 100 points

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The total number of elements is 2+2=4. Since we have 2 silver earrings, we get


P(two\text{silver earrings)}=(1)/(4)+(1)/(4)=(2)/(4)=(1)/(2)

the, the probability to get two silver earrings is 1/2, which is equivalent to 0.5.

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