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Abby, Deborah, Mei-Ling, Sam, and Roberto work in a firm's public relations office. Their employer must choose two of them to attend a conference in Paris.
To be fair, the choice will be made by drawing two names from a hat. (This is an SRS of size 2)

a) Write down all the possible choices of two of the five names. This is the sample space.

b) The random drawing makes all the choices equally likely. What is the probability of each choice?

c) What is the probability that Mei-Ling is chosen?

d) What is the probability that neither of the two men (Sam and Roberto) is chosen?

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To be fair, the choice will be made by drawing two ...

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