A jar contains 47 balls numbered 1 to 47. a. How many different sets of 5 balls can be randomly taken from the jar? The answer is b. How many different sets of 5 balls containing the ball numbered 42 can be taken from the jar? The answer is Give your probabilities in simplified fraction form. Hint: look at the factorial forms of part a and part b. c. What is the probability that a 5 – ball set will contain the ball numbered 42? The answer is

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A jar contains 47 balls numbered 1 to 47.
 
a. How many different sets of 5 balls can be randomly taken from the jar?
 

 

The answer is

 


 
b. How many different sets of 5 balls containing the ball numbered 42 can be taken from

 

the jar?
 

 

The answer is

 


 

 

Give your probabilities in simplified fraction form. Hint: look at the factorial forms of

 

part a and part b.
 
c. What is the probability that a 5

ball set will contain the ball numbered 42?
 

 

The answer is

 


 
d. What is the probability that a 5

ball set will not contain the ball numbered 42?
 

 

The answer is

 
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