Title: probabilityyy question round decimal places
Post by: mkshawty on Jun 6, 2012
A community meeting was attended by 37 parents along with 26 students. A committee is to be formed consisting of 8 people: 4 parents and 4 students. If you are one of the students at the meeing, what is the probability that you will be chosen for the committee? Round your answer to 4 decimal places
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Title: Re: probabilityyy question round decimal places
Post by: lola on Jun 6, 2012
If I were one of the students and it is certain that I'll be a member of the
committee, then 3 more students are needed to be selected from the remaining 25
students. It can be done in ways.
Then 4 parents had to be selected from 37 parents. This can be done in
.
There are
ways
of selecting 8 people out of
people.
The probability is then
.
Title: Re: probabilityyy question round decimal places
Post by: mkshawty on Jun 10, 2012
thanks