Homework Help: math

Posted by math hates me :( on Wednesday, February 15, 2012 at 11:04pm.

A group of students who are selecting 2 of their group at random to give a report, but assume that there are 5 males and 3 females.

What is the probability that 2 females are selected? 2 males?

math - PsyDAG, Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 9:12pm
There is no replacement. The probability of all/both events is found by multiplying the probabilities of the individual events.

1. 3/8 * 2/7 = ?

2. 5/8 * 4/7 = ?

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