Question

You have 2 bags of brightly colored gumballs. The first bag contains 9 balls, and the second bag contains 6 balls. How many possible ways can you draw 2 gumballs at random, 1 from each bag?

Answer 1

There are 9 ways of drawing a gumball from the first bag. Each of these 9 ways can be combined with each of the 6 ways of drawing a gumball from the second bag. Therefore the total number of ways of drawing 2 gumballs at random, 1 from each bag, is found from
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