SOLUTION: A mechanic working under a car requires three different size wrenches from her toolbox, which contains nine different wrenches. Reaching for her toolbox, she grabs three of them at
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Question 1192982: A mechanic working under a car requires three different size wrenches from her toolbox, which contains nine different wrenches. Reaching for her toolbox, she grabs three of them at random. What is the probability that the mechanic has all of the wrenches she needs?
Answer by ikleyn(52855) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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She needs exactly one triple of total possible = = 84 different triples.
So the probability to guess the triple randomly is . ANSWER
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- Introduction to Combinations
- PROOF of the formula on the number of Combinations
- Problems on Combinations
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