SOLUTION: A community meeting was attended by 37 parents along with 26 students. A committee is to be formed consisting of 8 people: 4 parents and 4 students. If you are one of the studen

Question 353779: A community meeting was attended by 37 parents along with 26 students. A committee is to be formed consisting of 8 people: 4 parents and 4 students. If you are one of the students at the meeing, what is the probability that you will be chosen for the committee
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If I were one of the students and it is certain that I'll be a member of the committee, then 3 more students are needed to be selected from the remaining 25 students. It can be done in ways. Then 4 parents had to be selected from 37 parents. This can be done in . There are
ways of selecting 8 people out of people.
The probability is then
.
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