A box has 19 candies in it: 3 are peppermint, 5 are caramel, and 11 are butterscotch. (Each candy falls into only one ofthese categories.) Maria wants to select two candies to eat for dessert. The first candy will be selected at random, and thenthe second candy will be selected at random from the remaining candies. What is the probability that the two candiesselected are caramel?Do not round your intermediate computations. Round your final answer to three decimal places.

Given that Number of caramel = 5 Total = 19 Then Number of non-caramel candies = 19 - 5 = 14

Answered: A box has 19 candies in it: 3 are…

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