A fruit basket contains 9 apples, 3 bananas, 7 oranges, 5 pears, and 1 grapefruit. Kyle randomly chooses a fruit, does not replace it, then chooses another. What is the probability that he chose two pears?

There are 25 pieces of fruit in all.

1. First, write the probability for the first pear.

= 5/25

= 1/5

2. Now, write the probability of picking the second pear. (The denominator and numerator would change to 24 because there are no longer 25 fruits after the first fruit was picked. There are now 4 pears, since let's say that we picked one.)

= 4/24

= 1/6

3. Finally, multiply the two fractions to find the total probability of picking the two pears.

= 1/5 x 1/6

= 1/30

4. Turn the answer to a percent.

= 1 ÷ 30

= 0.03333333

= 3%

The probability of chosing two pears is 3%.

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