SOLUTION: A group of 40 students from your school is part of the audience for a TV game show. The total number of people in the audience is 130. What is the theoretical probability of 4 stud

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Question 1157808: A group of 40 students from your school is part of the audience for a TV game show. The total number of people in the audience is 130. What is the theoretical probability of 4 students from your school being selected as contestants out of 8 possible contestant spots?
P(4students selected)=__
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Answer by Boreal(15235)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(40C4)(90C4)/130C8
ways to choose 4 from 40 multiplied by ways to choose 4 from the other 90 and number of ways to choose 8 in all from 130 as the denominator.
probability is 0.1438

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