SOLUTION: 2 students will be selected from a class of 30 students composed of 18 male and 12 female to participate in a math and science quiz bee. if 1 female student has been selected first

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Question 1192144: 2 students will be selected from a class of 30 students composed of 18 male and 12 female to participate in a math and science quiz bee. if 1 female student has been selected first, what is the probability that the next student that will be selected is another female student?
Answer by ikleyn(52778)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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2 students will be selected from a class of 30 students composed of 18 male and 12 female
to participate in a math and science quiz bee. if 1 female student has been selected first,
what is the probability that the next student that will be selected is another female student?
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After first selection, there are 30-1 = 29 students, composed of 18 males and 12-1 = 11 females.


Therefore, the probability that the next randomly selected person will be a female is  .

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