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A basket cottons 5 purple pencils and 3 brown pencils. If the two pencils are picked at random one of the other without replacement then what is the probability of pencils are that both purple ?

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35.7% chance

Explanation:

First pull is 5/8 chance, but then becasue you don't replace it next pull is 4/7, so you multiply them together

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