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Transcribed Image Text:5. A tray contains 36 doughnuts: 17 cake, 12 glazed, and 7 jelly-filled. Victoria randomly selects one
doughnut, eats it, then randomly selects another doughnut. Find the probability (to 4 decimal places) that she
selects from the tray a glazed doughnut and then a cake doughnut.
A.
0.1574
B.
0.1593
C.
0.1619
D.
0.8190
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