A box of matching game pieces contains 8 red pieces, 5 green pieces, and 7 yellow pieces. You reach in and randomly take out one piece and then a second piece. Find the probability of drawing a green piece followed by a red piece.

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eviant · Answer

@dude pls help me w/ this whenever you get a chance

Vocaloid · Answer

for the first step you draw one green piece, so you'd calculate

(green pieces)/(total pieces)

for the next step, you must calculate

(red pieces)/(total pieces, after the green one is taken out)

Vocaloid · Answer

then multiply the fractions together