SOLUTION: Please show me steps for solving using combination and probability formulas class has 11 boys and 14 girls 4 sheets to handout to 4 different students at random what is probab

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Question 1128604: Please show me steps for solving using combination and probability formulas
class has 11 boys and 14 girls 4 sheets to handout to 4 different students at random what is probability all boys answer is 3/115 is this right? please show me Thank you
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The answer is correct.

The number of ways to distribute the 4 sheets to the 25 students is "25 choose 4"; the number of ways to distribute them only to the 11 boys is "11 choose 4". The probability is the ratio of the two numbers.