The complement event of "at least one man is assigned to the swing shift" is the event that all 3 women are assigned to the swing shift. That's the number of ways to have all 3 women on the swing shift 1 1 ------------------------------------------------------------- = ---- = ----- the number of ways to have any 3 of the 10 on the swing shift 10C3 120 So 1/120 is the probability that all 3 women will be on the swing shift. Therefore 1 - 1/120 or 119/120 is the probability that there will be at least one man on the swing shift. [It doesn't matter about the other two shifts. We can ignore them. We are considering each of the 10 people either to be assigned to the swing shift or elsewhere.] Edwin