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There are 12 students in a classroom, including the triplets joey, chloe, and zoe. If 3 of the 12 are randomly selcted to give speeches, what is the probability that joey with be first, chloe will be second, and zoe will be third?

A: 1/1320 B: 1/4 C: 1/48 D: 1/220

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The probability of Joey being first is 1/12. If that happens the probability of Chloe going next is 1/11. Then the probability of zoe being picked next would be 1/10. Then if you multiply all the fractions I gave you you would get 1/1320 which is A. So A. Is your answer!! Hope this helps you out!!
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Answer:

it is 1/1320

Explanation:

cuz it is obviously higher with specific students than with random ones

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