If a bowl contains ten hazelnuts and eight almonds, what is the probability that four nut randomly selected from the bowl will all be hazelnuts?
1 Answer
Mar 28, 2018
Explanation:
We can model the bowl of nuts with a hypergeometric distribution containing 10 "successes" (hazelnuts) and 8 "failures" (almonds).
The formula we want to use is
Where:
Then the probability of getting 4 hazelnuts in a random sample of 4 nuts is: