A Shelf in the Metro Department Store Contains 70 Colored

question 97

Multiple Choice

A shelf in the Metro Department Store contains 70 colored ink cartridges for a popular ink-jet printer. Seven of the cartridges are defective. If a customer selects 2 of these cartridges at random from the shelf, what are the probabilities that both are defective and at least 1 is defective? ​

• A) 0.029, 0.100
• B) 0.009, 0.100
• C) 0.100, 0.809
• D) 0.100, 0.191
• E) 0.009, 0.191

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