Acase of 24 vegetable cans has 1 that is contaminated. 3 cans are to be chosen at random for testing.
a. how many different combinations of 3 cans are there?
b. what is the probability that the contaminated can is selected for testing with any given set of 3 cans?

Michelle had a birthday party. she bought a bag of candy with 96 starbursts, 72 hershey's, and 68 reese's. she wants to use all the candy she bought to make goody bags with the same amount of starbursts, hershey's and reese's in each bag. what is the largest number of bags she can make?

James adds two numbers a + b. sally adds the same two numbers but reverse the order b + a what property of addition assures us that james and sally will get the same sum

Martha has a deck of cards. she has lost some of the cards, and now the deck only contains nine spades, eleven diamonds, eight clubs, and twelve hearts. martha predicts that whenever she draws a card from the deck without looking, she will draw a club one-fifth of the time. which activity would best allow martha to test her prediction? a. randomly draw a card from the box and see if it is a club. b. randomly draw a card. then, continue to draw another card until all eight clubs are drawn. c. randomly draw and replace a card 120 times. then, observe how close to 30 times a club is drawn. d. randomly draw and replace a card 100 times. then, observe how close to 20 times a club is drawn.