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A committee of four is selected from seven men and six women. Find the probability that there is at least one of each gender on the committee.
The answer should b
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A committee of four is selected from seven men and six women. Find the probability that there is at least one of each gender on the committee.
The answer should be 133/143, but I got it wrong.
Thank you.
Answer by KMST(5347) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
With 7+6=13 people, you can form committees of 4 people.
Among those there are the only made of all men,
and the only made of all women.
The other committees have at least one person of each gender.
Those are
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of the total ={{143*6*5*4/(2*3*4}}} .
The probability is the ratio of those two quantities,
.
If you got the mistake was that
is equal to
and not to .
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