Find the Indicated Probability $\frac { 1 } { 2 }$

question 82

Multiple Choice

Find the indicated probability.
-A committee of three people is to be formed. The three people will be selected from a list of five possible committee members. A simple random sample of three people is taken, without replacement, from the group of five people. Using the letters A, B, C, D, E to represent the five people, list the possible samples of size three and use your list to determine the probability that B is included in the sample. (Hint: There are 10 possible samples.)

• A) \(\frac { 1 } { 2 }\)
• B) \(\frac { 2 } { 5 }\)
• C) \(\frac { 3 } { 5 }\)
• D) \(\frac { 7 } { 10 }\)

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