Question

Every cereal box has a gift inside, but you cannot tell from the outside what the gift is. The store manager assures you that 13 of the 62 boxes on the shelf have the secret decoder ring. The other 49 boxes on the shelf have a different gift inside. If you randomly select two boxes of cereal from the shelf to purchase, what is the probability that BOTH of them have the secret decoder ring?

Answer 1

I'm pretty sure it is 7.4% or 0.074.

Explanation:

Answer 2

0.041 = 4.1%

Explanation:

The probability the first box has a secret decoder ring is 13/62.

The probability the second box has a secret decoder ring is 12/61.

The probability of both is:

P = (13/62) (12/61)

P ≈ 0.041