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Suppose you have 25 socks in a drawer. 10 socks are white, 8 socks are black, and the rest are brown. What is the probability that if you randomly select a sock from the drawer that it will still be black. Round your answer to two decimal places

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Given data:

Total number of socks: 25

10 white socks

8 black socks

7 brown socks

Probability select a black sock:


\begin{gathered} P(B)=\frac{\#\text{black socks}}{\#total\text{ of socks}} \\ \\ P(B)=(8)/(25)=0.32 \end{gathered}Then, the probability that if you randomly select a sock from the drawer that it will still be black is 0.32
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