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A black sack contains three green balls, five yellow balls, and four white ones. Three balls are taken at random without repetition. What is the probability of having all the the three balls of different colors?

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Re: PS: PROBA-6 [#permalink] New post 03 Jul 2003, 20:55
Here's what I got:
3/12 * 5/11 * 4/10 = 1/22


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A black sack contains three green balls, five yellow balls, and four white ones. Three balls are taken at random without repetition. What is the probability of having all the the three balls of different colors?

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 [#permalink] New post 03 Jul 2003, 22:58
This is an example of so-called classical hypergeometrical distribution:

3C1*5C1*4C1/12C3 = 3/11
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 [#permalink] New post 05 Jul 2003, 11:29
Stolyar, is this approach fair?:

3 G, 5Y, 4W

P(green) = 3/12
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p(yellow) = 5/11
and
p(white) = 4/10

(3/12)x(5/11)x(4/10) = 1/22

Then because the 3 colors could be drawn out 3! ways:

3! x (1/22) = 6/22 = 3/11
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 [#permalink] New post 06 Jul 2003, 12:38
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Stolyar, is this approach fair?:

3 G, 5Y, 4W

P(green) = 3/12
and
p(yellow) = 5/11
and
p(white) = 4/10

(3/12)x(5/11)x(4/10) = 1/22

Then because the 3 colors could be drawn out 3! ways:

3! x (1/22) = 6/22 = 3/11


your approach is legal, but mine is quicker (I think so)
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