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A box of chocolates contains 5 milk chocolates and eight dark chocolates. You randomly pick a chocolate and eat it. Then you randomly pick another piece. What is the probability that both pieces are milk chocolate?Show your work:

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5 milk choc and 8 dark choc....total of 13 chocolates

P(1st pick is milk choc) = 5/13
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P(2nd pick is milk choc) = 4/12 which reduces to 1/3

P(both picks are milk choc) = 5/13 * 1/3 = 5/39 <== or 12.8%

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