In the Honors Committee Meeting, the Chairman shared that at the last EXXO SYMPO

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In the Honors Committee Meeting, the Chairman shared that at the last EXXO SYMPOSIUM (EMS) there were S AWARDS given to S different students. Annandale had 15 studen competine. All 5 awar since there was practically a 50-50 chance of ts competing while all other campuses had a total of 14 students ds were given to Annandale students. The committee thought this was fair each award. Calculate the probability of randomly selecting 5 students from this group of 29 all happen to be from Annandale. (Please show your work for full credit) A) students who 8) Upon calculating this probability, would you say that there is some sort of bias involved or is the committee correct that the EMS Judging is pretty fair?

Explanation / Answer

(A) there are total 29 students, so number of way to select 5 students from 29 = 29C5=118755

there are 15 students from annandale, so number of way to select 5 students from 15 annandale=15C5=3003

required probability=3003/118755=0.0253

(B) committe is correct,

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