Suppose your top drawer contains 42 different colored socks:
4 are white,
8 are black,
16 are pink, and
14 are blue.
All socks in the drawer are loose (unpaired). In the morning, you randomly select two socks, one at a time. Calculate the following probabilities, writing your answer either as a decimal or a fraction.
(a) What is the probability that you get a blue pair of socks?
(b) What is the probability that you do not get a blue pair of socks?
(c) What is the probability that neither is blue?
(d) What is the probability that you get either a white pair or a blue pair of socks?
(e) What is the probability that you get one black sock and one white sock?
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