Question 13
(a) At the end of full time, a football match between teams A and B was goalless. The winning team had to be decided through penalty kicks. Each team had to take five kicks.
The probability that a kick by team A will result in a goal was 0.8 and for team B the probability was 0.3. Find, correct to three decimal places, the probability that the final scores would be:
- 4 – 2 in favour of team B;
- 5 – 0 in favour of team A.
(b) Three students are to be selected from 4 boys and 5 girls to represent their school in a Mathematics Quiz.
(i) In how many ways can the three students be selected?
(ii) What is the probability that more boys will be selected than girls?
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