Thread: Probably 2 very easy probability problems
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Old May 13th, 2008, 03:55 PM
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The first one is a hypergeometric probability,

You choose 1 from the 5 faulty ones and 5 from the 19 good ones.

\frac{C(5,1)C(19,5)}{C(24,6)}
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