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A shipment of 14 smartphones contains 8 with cracked screens. if they are sold in a random order what is the probability that the 1st 3 sold have cracked screens? (without replacement)

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Answer:

4/7 or 57 percent rounded up

Explanation:

initially, you put 8/14 as a fraction then divide both the top and bottom by 2 to get 4/7 as that's the lowest you can get the number reduced.

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