SOLUTION: There are 8 black balls and 5 red balls in an urn. If 5 balls are drawn without replacement, what is the probability that exactly 1 black ball is drawn?

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Question 857413: There are 8 black balls and 5 red balls in an urn. If 5 balls are drawn without replacement, what is the probability that exactly 1 black ball is drawn?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
To get the numerator of the probability:

Choose the 1 black ball any of C(8,1) ways.
Choose the other four red balls C(5,4) ways

That's C(8,1)×C(5,4) = 8×5 = 40 ways.

To get the denominator:
Choose any 5 balls from the 13 in C(13,5) = 1287 ways.

Probability that exactly 1 black ball is drawn = ,
approximately 3.1% of the time.

Edwin
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