AP Statistics

Question

Suppose there were 15 females in a class of 32 students, what is the probability that if we pick a committee of 10 people from a class of 32 students if 8 of the people on the committee would be female?

Answer 1

P(committee is 8F, 2M) = 15C8•17C2 ÷ 32C10

 

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