Six cards numbered from 1 to 6 are placed in an empty bowl. First one card is drawn and then put back into the bowl; then a second card is drawn. If the cards are drawn at random and if the sum of the numbers on the cards is 8, what is the probability that one of the two cards drawn is numbered 5 ?
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1/2
Step-by-step explanation:
all possible outcomes = 6,2 ; 5,3; 3,5 ; 2,6
events that contains one of the two cards drawn is numbered 5 = 5,3 and 3,5
probability that one of the two cards drawn is numbered 5 = total number of favorable events / total number of events = 2/4 = 1/2
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