Dodgeball

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.

1/3 1/6 80/161 1/4 1/2

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1 solution

Zico Quintina
May 18, 2018

The number of ways of choosing which four of the twenty-four players are left on the playing field is ( 24 4 ) \dbinom{24}{4} . The number of ways of making that choice by taking three players from Team A and one player from Team B is ( 12 3 ) ( 12 1 ) \dbinom{12}{3} \dbinom{12}{1} , 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

2 ( 12 3 ) ( 12 1 ) ( 24 4 ) = 80 161 \dfrac{2 \dbinom{12}{3} \dbinom{12}{1}}{\dbinom{24}{4}} = \boxed{\dfrac{80}{161}}

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