SOLUTION: Determine the sample space illustrated in each situation below. Among the applicants of an immersion, there are only two vacant positions. Three males and two female applicants

Question 1189889: Determine the sample space illustrated in each situation below.
Among the applicants of an immersion, there are only two vacant positions. Three males and two female applicants qualify for the final interview. Because of scheduling problems, only two applicants can be interviewed immediately. The personnel manager selects these two by assigning a numbered ticket to each applicant, and then randomly drawing two tickets
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Determine the sample space illustrated in each situation below.
Among the applicants of an immersion, there are only two vacant positions. Three males and two female applicants
qualify for the final interview. Because of scheduling problems, only two applicants can be interviewed immediately.
The personnel manager selects these two by assigning a numbered ticket to each applicant,
and then randomly drawing two tickets
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The sample space in this case consists of all possible pairs of two people selected at a time from the given set of 5 people.


The number of such pairs is the combination   =  =  = 10.


The probability to select any one specific pair from this sample set is  ,  or 0.1.

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