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document.write( "The probability for the first selected student to be a female is  4/8.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then the probability for the second selected student to be a female is  3/7.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The combined probability for two selected students (without replacement) to be females\r\n" );
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