Practicing Success
A committee of 4 students is selected at random from a group consisting 8 boys and 4 girls. Given that there is at least one girl on the committee, calculate the probability that there are exactly 2 girls on the committee. |
325/457 25/49 168/325 168/425 |
168/425 |
Event A : Atleast one girl is chosen Event B : Exactly two girls will be chosen P(A) = 1 - P(No girl is chosen) = 1 - P(All boys are chosen) = 1 - 8C4/12C4 = 1 - 14/99 = 85/99 P(A\(\)B) = P(Two girls are chosen) = 8C2 x 4C2/12C4 = 56/165 P(B|A) = P(A\(\)B) / P(A) = \(\frac{ 56/165 }{85/99}\) = 168/425 |