SOLUTION: A committee of three people is selected at random from a set of seven Americans, five French people and three English people. What is the probability that the committee has no Ame
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Question 315418: A committee of three people is selected at random from a set of seven Americans, five French people and three English people. What is the probability that the committee has no Americans?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
A committee of three people is selected at random from a set of seven Americans, five French people and three English people. What is the probability that the committee has no Americans?
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# of ways to select three that are not Americans: 8C3
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# of ways to select three randomly: 15C3
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P(3 not American) = 8C3/15C3 = (8*7*6)/(15*14*13) = 0.1231
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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