A cafeteria offers four desserts: chocolate cake, chocolate pudding, ice cream sundae, and donuts. Two desserts at random on every plate. What is the probability that any randomly-chosen plate has pudding and a donut?

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smendyka
Feb 27, 2018

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Explanation:

There are ___ possible combinations of 2 deserts:

  1. Cake and pudding
  2. Cake and ice cream
  3. Cake and donuts
  4. Pudding and ice cream
  5. Pudding and donuts
  6. Ice cream and donuts

Assuming the probability for each desert is the same, then there is a #1" in "6# probability of the randomly chosen plate has pudding and a donut.

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