jar contains 20 identical ping-pong balls except that 4 are red, 5 are yellow, 4 are blue,  & 7 are green. Five balls are removed from the jar at random and without replacement.     Find each:

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A jar contains 20 identical ping-pong balls except that 4 are red, 5 are yellow, 4 are blue,  & 7 are green. Five balls are removed from the jar at random and without replacement.    

Find each:

 a) The probability of picking at most 2 green ping-pong balls.                                                                

 

b) The probability of picking exactly 2 blue ping-pong balls.

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