A Professor Divided the Students in Her Business Class into Three

question 16

Multiple Choice

A professor divided the students in her business class into three groups: those who have never taken a statistics class, those who have taken only one semester of a statistics class, and those who have taken two or more semesters of statistics.The professor randomly assigns students to groups of three to work on a project for the course.
If 35% of the students have never taken a statistics class, 25% have taken only one semester of a statistics class, and the rest have taken two or more semesters of statistics, what is the probability that neither of the first two groupmates you meet has studied any statistics?

• A)0.35
• B)0.70
• C)0.65
• D)0.123
• E)0.40

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