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Suppose that 100 students are divided into five classes, each containing 20 students, and that awards are to be given to 10 of these students. If each student is equally likely to receive an award, what is the probability that exactly two students in each class will receive awards

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Answer:

Preassuming that there are 10 awards (you do not mention the total number of awards in your question) and all students have the same chance of receiving a reward (does not sound reasonable):

(202)5(10010)

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