SOLUTION: Assume that particular professional baseball team has 12 pitchers, 6 infielders, and 7 other players. if 3 players’ names are selected at random determine the probability tha

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Question 1149007: Assume that particular professional baseball team has 12 pitchers, 6 infielders, and 7 other players. if 3 players’ names are selected at random determine the probability that 2 are pitchers and 1 is an infielder.
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"good" outcomes: choose 2 of the 12 pitchers, 1 of the 6 infielders, and 0 of the 7 other players.

possible outcomes: choose 3 of the total 25 players.

P(good outcome)= (# of good outcomes) / (total # of possible outcomes)

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