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Every cereal box has a gift inside, but you cannot tell from the outside what the gift is. The store manager assures you that 13 of the 58 boxes on the shelf have the secret decoder ring. The other 45 boxes on the shelf have a different gift inside. If you randomly select two boxes of cereal from the shelf to purchase, what is the probability that BOTH of them have the secret decoder ring? (Give answer as a decimal correct to four decimal places.)

Every cereal box has a gift inside, but you cannot tell from the outside what the gift is. The store manager assures you that 13 of the 58 boxes on the shelf have the secret decoder ring. The other 45 boxes on the shelf have a different gift inside. If you randomly select two boxes of cereal from the shelf to purchase, what is the probability that BOTH of them have the secret decoder ring? (Give answer as a decimal correct to four decimal places.)

Algebra: Structure And Method, Book 1
Algebra: Structure And Method, Book 1
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Author:Richard G. Brown, Mary P. Dolciani, Robert H. Sorgenfrey, William L. Cole
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Every cereal box has a gift inside, but you cannot tell from the outside what the gift is. The store manager assures you that 13 of the 58 boxes on the shelf have the secret decoder ring. The other 45 boxes on the shelf have a different gift inside. If you randomly select two boxes of cereal from the shelf to purchase, what is the probability that BOTH of them have the secret decoder ring? (Give answer as a decimal correct to four decimal places.)
Transcribed Image Text:Every cereal box has a gift inside, but you cannot tell from the outside what the gift is. The store manager assures you that 13 of the 58 boxes on the shelf have the secret decoder ring. The other 45 boxes on the shelf have a different gift inside. If you randomly select two boxes of cereal from the shelf to purchase, what is the probability that BOTH of them have the secret decoder ring? (Give answer as a decimal correct to four decimal places.)
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