SOLUTION: Three integers are randomly selected without replacement from the set { 1,2,3,5,6,7}. What is the probability that the mean of the values chosen is less than, but not equal to, 5?

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Question 267453: Three integers are randomly selected without replacement from the set { 1,2,3,5,6,7}. What is the probability that the mean of the values chosen is less than, but not equal to, 5?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20063)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
{1,2,3,5,6,7}

To have a mean of less than 5, the three numbers chosen must have
a sum less than 15.  

Let's go for the probability of the complement event, that is,
the choices of three numbers from the set that will have a sum 
of 15 or more. Then we will subtract that probability from from 1.

To have a sum that large, the 7 must be chosen, since 6+5+3 is only
14.

If the 7 and 6 are chosen, the third choice could be 2,3, or 5.  That's
3 ways.

If the largest two chosen are 7 and 5, then only the 3 could be chosen.
That's 1 more way.

So there are only 3+1 or 4 choices of three that have a sum of 15 or greater.

There are 6C3 = 20 possible choices, so the probability of the sum being
15 or more is 4/20 or 1/5.

Therefore the answer to the given problem is 

Edwin


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