A drawer contains three white socks and five black socks

MATHEMATICS · Multi-part · CBSE · Mathematics · Probability · Probability

Problem

A drawer contains three white socks and five black socks. Two socks are drawn without replacement. (1) Find P(2nd sock is black∣1st sock is white)P(\text{2nd sock is black} | \text{1st sock is white}) . (2) Find the probability that the socks are different colours.

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