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Question 1136857: in 2006, six of eleven men's basketball teams in the big ten conference were to participate in the NCAA men's basketball championship tournament. if six of the eleven schools are selected at random, what is the probability that the six teams chosen were the actual six teams selected to play?
Answer by ikleyn(52803)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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The number of all possible different subsets of 6 elements in the set of 11 elements

is the number of combinations of 11 items taken 6 at a time   


     =  = 462.


The probability to select randomly one specific subset of these 462 subsets is equal to 


    P =  = 0.0022 = 0.22%.         ANSWER

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