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Old 11-22-2005, 01:00 PM
alThor alThor is offline
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Default Re: Quck counting question
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P(x) = ( C(11,2) * (50 - 11) ) / C(50,3)

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Yes, look up the hypergeometric distribution for further info.

Your answer is equivalently ( C(11,2) * C(39,1) ) / C(50,3)

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