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Transcribed Image Text:1. Probability. The USI student council consists of 14 radicals and 11 socialists. A
committee is formed by selecting 5 students at random.
(a) Calculate the probability that there is at least one socialist in this committee.
(b) Given that there is at least one socialist in this committee, then what is the
probability that 3 of the committee members are socialists?
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