A student placement center has requests from six students for interviews regarding employment with a consulting firm. Two of these students are math majors, and the other four students are statistics majors. Unfortunately, the interviewer only has time to talk to two of the students. These two will be randomly selected from among the six. (Round your answers to three decimal places.) (a) What is the probability that both selected students are statistics majors?
A student placement center has requests from six students for interviews regarding employment with a consulting firm. Two of these students are math majors, and the other four students are statistics majors. Unfortunately, the interviewer only has time to talk to two of the students. These two will be randomly selected from among the six. (Round your answers to three decimal places.) (a) What is the probability that both selected students are statistics majors?
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A student placement center has requests from six students for interviews regarding employment with a consulting firm. Two of these students are math majors, and the other four students are statistics majors. Unfortunately, the interviewer only has time to talk to two of the students. These two will be randomly selected from among the six. (Round your answers to three decimal places.)
(a)
What is the probability that both selected students are statistics majors?
(b)
What is the probability that both students are math majors?
(c)
What is the probability that at least one of the students selected is a statistics major?
(d)
What is the probability that the selected students have the same major?
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