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mark has a drawer full of 12 yellow baseball caps and 18 white baseball caps. What is the probabilit

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mark has a drawer full of 12 yellow baseball caps and 18 white baseball caps. What is the probability of the next cap he chooses at random will be yellow?

P(yellow) = yellow caps / Total caps
P(yellow) = 12/(12 + 18)
P(yellow) = 12/30

Simplifying this fraction, we get:
P(yellow) = 2/5
 
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