A student owns 15 pencils, 9 are mechanical pencilsand 6 are wooden pencils. They pull a pencil out oftheir backpack randomly. The person beside themasks for a pencil and they randomly grab one. What isthe probability that the first pencil they grabbed wasmechanical and the second one was wooden.Round your answer to three decimal places.

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A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

10th Edition

ISBN:9780134753119

Author:Sheldon Ross

Publisher:Sheldon Ross

Chapter1: Combinatorial Analysis

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