SOLUTION: Tickets are numbered 1 to 50 and placed in a box. Three tickets are drawn at random without replacement. What is the probability that their numbers are all greater than 25?

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Question 41634: Tickets are numbered 1 to 50 and placed in a box. Three tickets are drawn at random without replacement. What is the probability that their numbers are all greater than 25?
Answer by Nate(3500) About Me  (Show Source):
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There are 24 numbers that are greater than 25 in the box.
(24/50)(23/49)(22/48) = 12144/117600 = 1012/9800 = 506/4900 = 253/2450
About 10.33%