SOLUTION: There are 4 freshman, 6 sophomores, 7 juniors, and 3 seniors on a school field trip. If three students are randomly selected to carry water bottle cases, what is the probability th

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Question 1116313: There are 4 freshman, 6 sophomores, 7 juniors, and 3 seniors on a school field trip. If three students are randomly selected to carry water bottle cases, what is the probability that they are all juniors?
Would it be 7/13?

Answer by ikleyn(52783)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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In all, there are 4 + 6 + 7 + 3 = 20 students.


By selecting randomly 3 students of 20, you can do it in   =  = 1140 ways.


In how many ways can you select the group of 3 juniors ?
You select them from the sub-group of 7 junior students, therefore, you can do it in   =  = 35 ways.


Therefore, the probability under the question is  this number   = 0.031 = 3.1%.

In order to solve freely such problems, you need to know about Combinations.

On Combinations,  see the lessons
    - Introduction to Combinations
    - PROOF of the formula on the number of Combinations
    - Problems on Combinations
    - OVERVIEW of lessons on Permutations and Combinations
in this site.

Also,  you have this free of charge online textbook in ALGEBRA-II in this site
    - ALGEBRA-II - YOUR ONLINE TEXTBOOK.

The referred lessons are the part of this online textbook under the topic  "Combinatorics: Combinations and permutations".


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