24 kids are playing "Dodge The Rock" 20 of them are out and 4 of them are left. what is the probability of 3 of the remaining 4 being on 1 team? The kids are evenly divided between two teams.
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The number of ways of choosing which four of the twenty-four players are left on the playing field is ( 4 2 4 ) . The number of ways of making that choice by taking three players from Team A and one player from Team B is ( 3 1 2 ) ( 1 1 2 ) , which is the same as the number of ways of taking one player from Team A and three players from Team B.
So the desired probability is
( 4 2 4 ) 2 ( 3 1 2 ) ( 1 1 2 ) = 1 6 1 8 0