Question

Mei is carrying seven pages of math homework and six pages of English homework.A gust of wind blows the pages out of her hands and she is only able to recover seven random pages what is the probability that she recovers exactly three pages of her math homework

Answer 1

probability of recovering exactly 3 pages of homework = 35/286

Explanation:

She carries seven pages of math homework and six pages of English.

Thus, total pages = 7 + 6 = 13 pages.

Now, wind blows all the 13 pages out of her hands, we want to find out the probability of recovering exactly 3 pages of homework.

There are a total of 7 pages of maths homework from the question.

Thus,

First page = 7/13

Second page = 6/12

Third page = 5/11

So,probability of recovering exactly 3 pages of homework = (7/13) * (6/12) * (5/11) = 35/286