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Author: Sheldon Ross
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Determine if the scenario involves mutually exclusive events. Then find the probability

Transcribed Image Text:3) A basket contains seven apples and six
peaches. One of the apples and five of the
peaches are rotten. You randomly pick a
piece of fruit. It is rotten or it is a peach.
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