Question

Bag of candy contains 4 strawberry

flavored gumdrops, and 5 orange
flavored gumdrops. If Billy reaches in,
takes one out and eats it, and then 20
minutes later selects another and eats
that one as well, what is the probability
that they were both orange flavored
gumdrops? Leave answer as a fraction in simplest form.

Answer 1

There are 9 candies in total, with 5 being orange. Think of it. For the first grab, you have a 5/9 chance of it being orange flavored. Now there are 4 orange flavored candies, and 8 total candies in the bag. Grabbing a second candy, Billy has a 4/8 chance of grabbing an orange flavored candy. So your two fractions are...

5/9, 4/8

Can you combine these two fractions for a final answer?