SOLUTION: There are five boys and five girls in a class. The teacher randomly selects three different students to answer questions. The first student is a girl, the second student is a boy,

Algebra.Com
Question 1181086: There are five boys and five girls in a class. The teacher randomly selects three different students to answer questions. The first student is a girl, the second student is a boy, and the third student is a girl. Find the probability of this occurring.

Answer by ikleyn(52777)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
.
There are five boys and five girls in a class.
The teacher randomly selects three different students to answer questions.
The first student is a girl, the second student is a boy, and the third student is a girl.
Find the probability of this occurring.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    P =  =  = .


At the first step, you select one of 5 girls among 10 students.


At the second step, you select one of 5 boys among remaining 9 students.


At the third step, you select one of remaining 4 girls among remaining 8 students.


It gives the formula.

------------

Solved, answered and carefully explained.

It can be solved in different ways, but this one is the fastest, simplest and the most straightforward.



RELATED QUESTIONS

In a math class, 12 out of 15 girls are freshmen and 11 out of 15 boys are freshmen. What (answered by stanbon,edjones)
A class has seven girls and five boys. If the teacher randomly picks six students, what... (answered by ikleyn)
There are 7 girls and 6 boys in a class. Suppose five children are randomly chosen to... (answered by stanbon)
There are 15 girls and 10 boys in a class. The teacher randomly selects one student to go (answered by checkley75)
There is a class of 24 students, 10 girls and 14 boys. If the teacher randomly selects a (answered by stanbon)
There are thirty-three students in the Chess Club. There are five more boys than girls in (answered by mananth)
A teacher is randomly calling on students in a class. If there are 6 girls and 6 boys in... (answered by ewatrrr)
At the end of each week, a generous teacher gives some candy to a few randomly selected... (answered by ikleyn)
There are 7 girls and 6 boys in a class. Suppose five children are chosen randomly to... (answered by ewatrrr)