The owner of a small hardware store employs three men and three women. He will select three employees at random to work on Christmas Eve. Find the probability that exactly two men (and one woman) will

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Answer:

Explanation:

This is a hypergeometric distribution

$\frac{{3\choose2}*{3\choose1}}{{6\choose3}}$ =.45

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