Question

3. Twelve people work together: four of them are managers and eight of them are office workers. Two people are chosen at random from the twelve members of the group. Calculate the probability that one is a manager and one is an office worker.​

Answer 1

2/9

Explanation:

8/12 you pick an office worker

4/12 chance you pick a manager

8/12 multiplied by 4/12 is 32/144

We can simplify this to 16/72

We can simplify this to 8/36

We can simplify this to 4/18

We can simplify this to 2/9