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Consider a political discussion group consisting of 4 Democrats, 4 Republicans, and 2 Independents. Suppose that two group members are randomly selected, insuccession, to attend a political convention. Find the probability of selecting no Independents(Type an integer or a simplified fraction)

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Let D, R, and I, denote the set of politicians being Democrats, Republicans, and Independents.

According to the given problem,


\begin{gathered} n(D)=4 \\ n(R)=4 \\ n(I)=2 \end{gathered}

Consider that the probability of an event is given by,


\text{Probability}=\frac{\text{ Number of favourable outcomes}}{\text{ Total number of outcomes}}

As per the given problem, the favourable event is that the two selected politicians at succession are not Independents.

The number of ways of selecting 2 politicians such that both of them are Independents,


\begin{gathered} =^2C_2 \\ =(2!)/(2!\cdot(2-2)!) \\ =(1)/(0!) \\ =1 \end{gathered}

So there is only 1 favourable outcome.

The total number of ways of selecting 2 politicians from the group is,


\begin{gathered} =^(10)C_2 \\ =(10!)/(2!\cdot(10-2)!) \\ =(10\cdot9\cdot8!)/((2\cdot1)\cdot8!) \\ =5\cdot9 \\ =45 \end{gathered}

Then the corresponding probability is given by,

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