"A student committe has 6 members - 4 undergraduate and 2 graduate students. A subcommittee of 3 members is to be chosen randomly so that each possible combination of 3 of the 6 students is equally likely to be selected. What is the probability that there will be no graduate students on the subcommittee
Contingency Table
A contingency table can be defined as the visual representation of the relationship between two or more categorical variables that can be evaluated and registered. It is a categorical version of the scatterplot, which is used to investigate the linear relationship between two variables. A contingency table is indeed a type of frequency distribution table that displays two variables at the same time.
Binomial Distribution
Binomial is an algebraic expression of the sum or the difference of two terms. Before knowing about binomial distribution, we must know about the binomial theorem.
"A student committe has 6 members - 4 undergraduate and 2 graduate students. A subcommittee of 3 members is to be chosen randomly so that each possible combination of 3 of the 6 students is equally likely to be selected. What is the probability that there will be no graduate students on the subcommittee?" (question 3.31 of Statistics for Business and Economics 8th edition)
I tried using the hypergeometric distribution method to solve this but it's not correct. Why can't I use this method?
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