Question

Jeff has 5 red pens and 1 blue pen in his backpack. He also has 1 yellow highlighter and 4 green highlighters in his backpack. If he reaches into his backpack and grabs one pen and one highlighter without looking, what is the probability that he will grab a blue pen and a yellow highlighter?

Answer 1

1/30 is the answer

He has a probability of 1/6 with getting the blue pen and a probability of 1/5 getting the yellow highlighter. Multiply those together and you get 1/30

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Answer 2

pen- 1/6
highlighter- 1/5