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Don has 12 white winter socks, 12 black winter socks, 4 black summer socks, and 12 white summer socks. If one sock is drawn at random, what is the probability that it is black, given that it is one of the summer socks?

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Answer:

10% chance it is a black summer sock

Explanation:

it total there are 40 different socks and only 4 are black summer socks

4/40 = 0.1 or 10%

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