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A school's faith awareness group consists of 15 students and 3 teachers. If four members of the groups are randomly chosen to go to a retreat
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A school's faith awareness group consists of 15 students and 3 teachers. If four members of the groups are randomly chosen to go to a retreat, determine the probability of selecting three students.
Answer by greenestamps(13215) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The denominator of the probability fraction is the number of ways of choosing 4 of the 18 people: 18C4.
The numerator is the number of ways of choosing 3 of the 15 students AND 1 of the 3 teachers: (15C3) times (3C1).
P(3 students and 1 teacher) =
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