Inside the box of every cereal box contains a surprise gift. The store manager assures employees that 22 of the 45 boxes on the shelf have a secret decoder ring and inside the other 23 boxes on the shelf contain a different gift. If two cereal boxes are randomly selected from the shelf to purchase, what is the probability that both of them have the secret decoder ring

0.2333 = 23.33% probability that both of them have the secret decoder ring

Step-by-step explanation:

The cereals are chosen without replacement, which means that the hypergeometric distribution is used to solve this question.

Hypergeometric distribution:

The probability of x successes is given by the following formula:

In which:

x is the number of successes.

N is the size of the population.

n is the size of the sample.

k is the total number of desired outcomes.

Combinations formula:

is the number of different combinations of x objects from a set of n elements, given by the following formula.

In this question:

45 boxes, which means that

22 have the secret decoder ring, which means that

Two boxes, which means that

What is the probability that both of them have the secret decoder ring?

This is P(X = 2). So

0.2333 = 23.33% probability that both of them have the secret decoder ring

answer:

it is general formula that is used to write value to its excet position

a11 a12 a13

a21 a22 a23

it is the example of order 2 by 3 matrix in this

a11 means value occur in 1 st row 1st column

a12 means value occurs in 1st row 2nd column

a13 means value occur in 1st row and 3rd column

a21 means value occurs in 2nd row and 1st column

a22 means value occurs in 2nd row and in 2nd column

a23 means value occurs in 2nd row and in 3rd column