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A cooler contains eleven bottles of sports drink: five lemon-lime flavored, three orange flavored, and three fruit-punch flavored. You randomly grab a bottle. Then you return the bottle to the cooler, mix up the bottles, and randomly select another bottle. Both times you get a lemon-lime drink.

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Answer:

25/121 chance of grabbing a lemon-lime bottle twice.

Explanation:

5/11 chance the first time, times 5/11 for the second time (no removal factor) is 25/121 chace, or around a 20.66% chance.

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Answer:

the reason you picked up more lemon lime drinks was because it had the most in the cooler.

Explanation:

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