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A bookcase contains 3 statistics books and 5 biology books. If 2 books are chosen at random, the chance that b?

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I am working on my stats homework and I am trumped by this question - Any suggestions?

A bookcase contains 3 statistics books and 5 biology books. If 2 books are chosen at random, the chance that both are statistics books is

A) 3 / 28

B) 5 / 14

C) 10 / 13

D) 3 / 13

thanks for the help

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    1. Alex on November 24th, 2011 11:58 pm

      (3/8)(2/7)=6/56=3/28