SOLUTION: A company is to hire two new employees. They have prepared a final list of seventeen candidates, all of whom are equally qualified. Of these seventeen candidates, eleven are women.

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Question 1158745: A company is to hire two new employees. They have prepared a final list of seventeen candidates, all of whom are equally qualified. Of these seventeen candidates, eleven are women. If the company decides to select
two persons randomly from these seventeen candidates, what is the probability that both of them are men?

Answer by ikleyn(52814) About Me  (Show Source):
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11 of 17 are women and the rest  (17-11) = 6  are men.


The probability under the question is  P = %286%2F17%29%2A%285%2F16%29 = 30%2F272 = 15%2F136 = 0.110294.    ANSWER

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