Question

Ms. Rodas has a class with 26 students. 14 of the students are boys. The department chair asks her to send 3 students to help take inventory of the math textbooks. What is the probability that she sends 2 boys and 1 girl? *

14/25
77/600
539/3900
77/676

Answer 1

Answer: 7/50

Explanation:

Answer 2

• 7/50, none of the answer choices

Explanation:

• Total number = 26
• Number of boys = 14
• Number of girls = 12

There are three ways of choosing 2 boys and a girl:

• P(bbg) = 14/26*13/25*12/24 = 7/50
• P(bgb) = 14/26*12/25*13/24 = 7/50
• P(gbb) = 12/26*14/25*13/24 = 7/50

As we see the answer is 7/50 and all the answer choices are different from this