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A car dealership has seven cars in the lot unfortunately the keys to the cars of been mixed up the manager randomly grab the key and tries to start a car salesman also randomly picks a different key and tries to start another car what is the probability that both cars start

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To determine The probability of both of these occurring, you would multiply the probability of each together. So, there is a 1/7 chance of the first salesman getting the right key, and 1/6 chance of the second salesman getting the right key. 1/7 x 1/6= 1/42 chance of both occurring.

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