A committee has seven men and four women. If four people are selected to go to a conference, what is the chance that the group is two men and two women?

Respuesta :

Given:

A committee has seven men and four women.

four people are selected to go to a conference

We will use the combinations as follows

the number of ways to choose the four people are:

[tex]7C4+7C3+7C2+7C1+7C0[/tex]

The rule of combinations is:

[tex]\text{nCr}=\frac{n!}{(n-r)!\cdot r!}[/tex]

so, the number of ways will be:

[tex]35+35+21+7+1=99[/tex]

The number of ways to make a group of two men and two women will be:

[tex]7C2=21[/tex]

So, the chance that the group is two men and two women =

[tex]\frac{21}{99}=\frac{7}{33}[/tex]

so, the answer will be 7/33