Question

A cooler contains twelve bottles of sports drinks: five lemon-lime

flavored, four orange flavored, and three fruit-punch flavored. You

randomly grab a bottle. Then you return the bottle to the cooler and

randomly select another bottle. Find the probability of selecting a

lemon-lime drink first, and a fruit-punch drink second. *

Answer 1

0.1042 or 10.42%

Explanation:

Since the first bottle is returned to the cooler, there will be 12 possible choices for each pick.

There is a 5 in 12 chance of picking a lemon-lime drink first.

There is a 3 in 12 chance of picking a fruit-punch drink second.

The probability of both events happening is:

`P=(5)/(12)* (3)/(12)\\P=0.1042=10.42\%`

The probability is 0.1042 or 10.42%.