A basket contains 13 pieces of fruit : 5 apples, 5 oranges and 3 bananas. Jonas takes a piece of fruit at random from the basket, and then Beth takes a piece at random. what is the probability that Jonas will get an orange and Beth will get an apple?

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Laci Hancock

4 December, 01:05

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Gustavo Jarvis · Answer 1

P (Jonas getting orange) = 5/13 = 0.385 or 28.5%

P (Beth getting an apple) 5/12 = 0.417 or 41.7%