A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)
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Author: Sheldon Ross
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A committee of 7 members is to be formed by selecting members at random from a pool of 14 candidates consisting of 5 women and 9 men.
a. What is the
committee?
b. It is desired to increase the chance that there are at least three women in
the committee to 80% by doing one of the following:
i. Adding more women to the pool.
ii. Removing some men from the pool.
For each of the two options, find out how many should be added or removed.
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