SOLUTION: 5 cards are selected from 10 cards numbered from 1 to 10 one after the another without replacement. what is the probability that the selected numbers on the card has median 3?

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Question 934989: 5 cards are selected from 10 cards numbered from 1 to 10 one after the another without replacement. what is the probability that the selected numbers on the card has median 3?
Answer by ewatrrr(24785)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
5 cards are selected from 10 cards numbered from 1 to 10 w/o replacement
P(1,2,3,_,_) = = 1/720
Re TY
My thoughts were the Probability depended only on the first three choices...
as the last two had no strings attached to them.
Note: 10P3 = 720... P(1,2,3) = 1/720
P(1,2,3,_,_) =

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