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Consider a political discussion group consisting of 4 Democrats, 9 republicans, and 4 independents. Suppose that two group members are rando
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Consider a political discussion group consisting of 4 Democrats, 9 republicans, and 4 independents. Suppose that two group members are randomly selected in succession to attend a political convention. Find the probability of selecting two Democrats.
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2021-07-18T21:49:24+00:00
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All in all, we are selecting from a pool of 17 members (4+9+4 = 17). So seeing we have 4 democrats, the probability would be 4/17.
Normally we would simplify the fraction from there but 4/17 is already the simplified form. Therefore that is already the answer.