SOLUTION: 3) A class has 28 students. There are 5 good students, 13 fairly good students and 10 medium students. Randomly take 4 students to attend the meeting. Find the probability to have

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Question 388629: 3) A class has 28 students. There are 5 good students, 13 fairly good students and 10 medium students. Randomly take 4 students to attend the meeting. Find the probability to have at least 2 good students that was chosen.

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3) A class has 28 students. There are 5 good students, 13 fairly good students and 10 medium students. Randomly take 4 students to attend the meeting. Find the probability to have at least 2 good students that was chosen.
The denominator of the desired probability is 28 choose 4 or 28C4.

It is easier to get the probability of the complement event and then 
subtract from 1.

The complement event is that either 

A. all 4 students were chosen from the 13+10 or 23 non-good students

or

B. 1 good student was chosen from the 5 and the other 3 were chosen from
   the 23 non-good students.

P(A or B) = P(A)+P(B) = 23C4%2F%2828C4%29 + %285C1%2F%2828C4%29%29%2A%2823C3%2F%2828C4%29%29

=  8855%2F20475 + %285%2F20475%29%2A%281771%2F%2820475%29%29 = 0.4324997548

That's the probability of the complement event.

The desired probability is therefore 1 - 0.4324997548 = 0.5675002452

Edwin