30C3*90C6/120C9
Choose 3 from your school, choose the remaining 6 from the remaining students
Divide by the number of choices of 9 students out of 120 total.
Just for fun I used the COMBIN function in Excel to get the answer
Jakob Z.
asked 02/26/19A group of 30 students from your school is part of the audience for a TV game show. The total number of people in the audience is 120. What is the theoretical probability of 3 students from your school being selected as contestants out of 9 possible contestant spots?
P(3 students selected) = __
30C3*90C6/120C9
Choose 3 from your school, choose the remaining 6 from the remaining students
Divide by the number of choices of 9 students out of 120 total.
Just for fun I used the COMBIN function in Excel to get the answer
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