)8 students from class A, 6 students from class B and 2 students from class C participate in some competition. What is the probability that exactly 2 out of 3 prize winners are from class B.

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1)8 students from class A, 6 students from class B and 2 students from class C participate in some competition. What is the probability that exactly 2 out of 3 prize winners are from class B.

2) The probability that  some event A  happens at least once in 4 independent experiments is 0.9744.  Find the probability of event A in a particular experiment.

3)Consider 10 independent observations. The probability of event A in a particular experiment is 0.2. Find the probability that event A occurs exactly 7 times.

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