A bag contains ten pencils. Three of the pencils are red, and the rest are brown. If two pencils are drawn successively at random and without replacement, find the following four probabilities: a) The first pencil-drawn is red and the second pencil-drawn is brown; b) Both pencils are red; c) One pencil is red and the other is brown (the order in which they are drawn doesn't matter); d) If the second pencil-drawn is red, what is the probability that the first pencil-drawn was

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Section11.8: Probabilities Of Disjoint And Overlapping Events
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A bag contains ten pencils. Three of the pencils are red, and the rest are brown. If two pencils are drawn successively at random and without replacement, find the following four probabilities: a) The first pencil-drawn is red and the second pencil-drawn is brown; b) Both pencils are red; c) One pencil is red and the other is brown (the order in which they are drawn doesn't matter); d) If the second pencil-drawn is red, what is the probability that the first pencil-drawn was 

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