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    MHB Probability of 3 people ending up on same team?

    Sorry that wasn't exactly clear - I meant 2000 people of which 3 are women and 1997 are men, p~=0.25
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    MHB Probability of 3 people ending up on same team?

    Thanks! If I change the size of the team to 1000 (keeping the ratio of W:M the same) the result is 0.245 - very close to the 0.25 I also thought - is there a rule that explains why this is for large numbers?
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    MHB Probability of 3 people ending up on same team?

    There are 20 people and we are forming 2 teams of 10 people. 3 of the people (3/20) are women, 17 (17/20) are men. Names are drawn from random, in alternating order for teams. What is the probability that all 3 women end up on the same team? Initially I thought it was 25%. 100% probability for...
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