Probability with Permutations and combintations

There are 7 students in a class: 5 boys and 2 girls.
If the teacher picks a group of 4 at random, what is the probability that everyone in the group is a boy?

• 5/7
• 1/7
• 2/7
• 1

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There are 10 students in a class: 5 boys and 5 girls.

If the teacher picks a group of 3 at random, what is the probability that everyone in the group is a girl?

• 1/12

• 1/2

• 1

• 1/5

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Let us suppose we have 12 adults and 10 kids as an audience of a certain show. Find the number of ways the host can select three persons from the audiences to volunteer. The choice must contain two kids and one adult.

• 200
• 12
• 540
• 998

Diego is in the Spanish club. There are 21 students in the club. Four of them will be picked at random to attend an awards banquet. What is the probability that Diego will not be randomly chosen to attend the banquet?

Members of 6 different school organizations decorated floats for the homecoming parade. How many different ways can first, second, and third prize be awarded?

• 18

• 120

• 36

• 18

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Permutation, combination, or neither?
There are 45 applicants for three Computer Programmer job positions.

• combination
• permutation
• neither

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Find the number of possibilities:
A group of 25 people are going to run a race.  The top 8 finishers advance to finals.

• 625
• 4.36 X 10¹⁰
• 1,081,575

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Find the number of possibilities:
A team of 17 softball players needs to choose three players to refill the water cooler.

• 272
• 4080
• 680

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₂₀P₂

• 20
• 380
• 6840
• 116280

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₁₂C₃

• 0
• 1
• 220
• 1140

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