anyone out there who is a probabilty whizz and can explain itto me? A committee

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anyone out there who is a probabilty whizz and can explain itto me? A committee of 5 people are selected at random from a poolconsisting of 5 Englishmen, 8 Americans and 3 Frenchmen. What isthe probability that the committee will be made up of 2 English, 2Americans and 1 French? Ans. 5/26 anyone out there who is a probabilty whizz and can explain itto me? A committee of 5 people are selected at random from a poolconsisting of 5 Englishmen, 8 Americans and 3 Frenchmen. What isthe probability that the committee will be made up of 2 English, 2Americans and 1 French? Ans. 5/26

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Use the combination method where you do C(what you have of certainitem, what you want of certain item)*..../C(total, total what youwant) C(5,2)*C(8,2)*C(3,1)/C(16,5) Solve on calculator or by hand: Answer is 5/26, which is what you have

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