Suppose a bag contains 4 white chips and 6 black chips. What is the probability of randomly choosing a white chip, not replacing it, and then randomly choosing another white chip?

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There are 4+6=10 chips in the bag. 4 of them are white. The probability that the first chip chosen will be white is 4/10=2/5.
After that, there is one white chip less in the bag, so there are 9 chips in the bag, 3 of them are white. The probability that the second chip chosen will be white is 3/9=1/3.

Multiply the probabilities to find the probability that the first chip will be white and the second chip will be white:
[tex]\frac{2}{5} \times \frac{1}{3}=\frac{2}{15}[/tex]

The probability of choosing a white chip and then another white chip is 2/15.
AL2006

--The probability of choosing a white chip on the first draw is 4/10 .

-- If you already have one white chip, then the probability of choosing
another one on the second draw is 3/9.

--  So the probability of both is  (4/10) x (3/9) = 12/90 = (13 and 1/3) percent .