Question

On a high school varsity baseball team, 5 players are sophomores, 12 arejuniors, and 14 are seniors. The team selects 4 honorary co-captains by drawingnames from a hat. What's the probability that all 4 co-captains come from thesame class?

Answer 1

1) Let's find out the total of students by adding them up:

5 sophomores

12 juniors

14 seniors

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31 players

2) Since there are going to be selected 4 players from the same class we can write out a combination for the favorable outcome: