A scalene triangle can be formed if and only if the two shorter sides added together is greater than the longest side. Since 16 and 19 only add to give 35, and the other two numbers are greater than that, both 16 and 19 cannot be sides of the same triangle. So the only way that they can form a triangle is to select one of those for the shortest side and the two largest ones for the other two sides. {16,43,50} or {19,43,50} But the number of ways to choose any three is 4 numbers Choose 3 = 4C3 = 4 So the probability is 2 ways out of 4 or 2/4 or 1/2. Edwin