8 of the 40 newly built cars are selected at random to be checked for steering defects. Suppose 10 of the cars have such defects. What is the probability that all 8 of the selected cars have steering defect?

1 Answer
Feb 15, 2016

Since you are sampling without replacement and the sample size is large with respect to the population (8/40=20%), use the following "counting" method ...

Explanation:

Number of ways to select 8 of the 10 defects :

=(10!)/(8!xx2!)=45 ways

In general , number of ways to select 8 from a population of 40:

=(40!)/(8!xx32!)=76,904,685 ways

Finally, calculate your probability ...

P("all 8 have defects")=45/(76,904,685)~~0.000000585

hope that helped