SOLUTION: An urn has 10 balls that are identical except that 5 are white and 5 are red. A sample of 6 is selected randomly without replacement. What is the probability that exactly 4 are wh

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Question 1153114: An urn has 10 balls that are identical except that 5 are white and 5 are red. A sample of 6 is selected randomly without replacement.
What is the probability that exactly 4 are white and 2 are red?

Answer by ikleyn(52847)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The probability  P = .

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This problem is on COMBINATIONS.

On Combinations,  see introductory 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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