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Probability of Forming a Committee with at least 3 Women and at most 6 Men
1. Total Number of Ways to Form a Committee
- Total candidates = 14 (5 women and 9 men)
- Total ways to form a committee of 7 members = C(14, 7)
2. Number of Ways to Form a Committee with at least 3 Women
- Number of ways to select 3 women out of 5 = C(5, 3)
- Number of ways to select remaining 4 members from the pool of 9 men = C(9, 4)
- Total ways to form a committee with at least 3 women = C(5, 3) * C(9, 4)
3. Number of Ways to Form a Committee with at most 6 Men
- Number of ways to select 0 men out of 9 = C(9, 0)
- Number of ways to select remaining 7 members from the pool of 5 women = C(5, 7)
- Total ways to form a committee with at most 6 men = C(9, 0) * C(5, 7) + C(9, 1) * C(5, 6) + ... + C(9, 6) * C(5, 1) + C(9, 7) * C(5, 0)
4. Calculating the Probability
- Probability of forming a committee with at least 3 women = Number of ways to form a committee with at least 3 women / Total number of ways to form a committee
- Probability of forming a committee with at most 6 men = Number of ways to form a committee with at most 6 men / Total number of ways to form a committee
5. Final Steps
- Calculate the probabilities using the formulas derived in steps 2 and 3
- Simplify the expressions to get the final probability values.
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