SOLUTION: A group of 30 students from your school is part of the audience for a TV game show. The total number of people in the audience is 130. What is the theoretical probability of 3 stud

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Question 1180092: A group of 30 students from your school is part of the audience for a TV game show. The total number of people in the audience is 130. What is the theoretical probability of 3 students from your school being selected as contested out of 9 possible contestant spots?
Answer by Boreal(15235) About Me  (Show Source):
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this is 30C3*100C6/130C9, the denominator is the number of ways to choose 9 from 130, and the numerator is the product of the number of ways to choose 3 from 30 * the number of ways to choose 6 from 100.
=0.2198