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Given 8 students 3 of which are females if 2 students are selected at random without replacement what is the probability that both students are female?

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p(1th fem)=3/8
p(2th fem)=2/7
so p(1&2 fem)=3/8.2/7=3/28
User John Franke
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3/8

37.5% that they will be fremale
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