A manufacturing company performs a quality-control analysis on the ceramic tile it produces. Suppose a batch of 20 tiles has 5 defective tiles. If 3 tiles are sampled at random, what is the probability that exactly 1 of the sampled tiles is defective? ..... How many ways can 3 tiles be selected from 20 tiles?

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A manufacturing company performs a quality-control analysis on the ceramic tile it produces. Suppose a batch of 20 tiles has 5 defective tiles. If 3 tiles are sampled at
random, what is the probability that exactly 1 of the sampled tiles is defective?
.....
How many ways can 3 tiles be selected from 20 tiles?
ways
(Type a whole number.)
Transcribed Image Text:A manufacturing company performs a quality-control analysis on the ceramic tile it produces. Suppose a batch of 20 tiles has 5 defective tiles. If 3 tiles are sampled at random, what is the probability that exactly 1 of the sampled tiles is defective? ..... How many ways can 3 tiles be selected from 20 tiles? ways (Type a whole number.)
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