A Group Has 12 Men and 4 Women

question 22

Multiple Choice

A group has 12 men and 4 women. If 3 people are selected at random from the group, what is the probability that they are all men?

• A) 0.4219
• B) 0.5143
• C) 0.3929
• D) 0.0156
• E) 0.0045

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