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Question 667346: The organizer of a television show must select 5 people to participate in the show. that participants will be selected from a list of 26 people who have written in to the show. if the participants are selected randomly, what is the probability that the 5 youngest people wil be selected?
not sure if this is 6! or do I have to use 8!(8-6!) =8!/2! Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The formula for combinations is generally , where is the total number of possibilities to start and is the number of selections made.
In our example, we have 26 people; therefore, .
We want to select youngest people, so }.
if there are exactly youngest people and if they were all selected, the probability is
