Bradley has a bag of pencils with 10 orange, 2 cyan, and 5 purple pencils. Find the following probabilities of Bradley drawing the given pencils from the bag if each pencil is removed from the bag after it is drawn. You may answer with fractions or decimals rounded to three places. A orange, then a cyan      A purple, then a purple  A orange, then another orange, and then a cyan

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Bradley has a bag of pencils with 10 orange, 2 cyan, and 5 purple pencils.

Find the following probabilities of Bradley drawing the given pencils from the bag if each pencil is removed from the bag after it is drawn. You may answer with fractions or decimals rounded to three places.

  1. A orange, then a cyan     
  2. A purple, then a purple 
  3. A orange, then another orange, and then a cyan 
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