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1.4 Exercise 4

Avg difficulty 2.5

A group of five persons consists of two men and three women. They are selected one-by-one in a random manner. Let Ei be the event a man is selected on the ith selection. Write an expression for the event that both men have been selected by the third selection.

Pfeiffer, Applied Probability, 1.4 Problems on Probability Systems, exercise 4

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