appoint a planning committee with five different members. There are 14 qualified​ candidates, and officers can also serve on the committee. What is the probability of randomly selecting the committee members and getting the five youngest of the qualified​ candidates?

Step-by-step explanation:

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Given

-- committee members

---- officers (i.e. president, CEO, COO and CFO)

Required

Probability of selecting 5 youngest qualified members

First, we calculate the number of ways the committee can be appointed;

Any 5 members can be part of the committee; This means that we won't consider the order.

So, the number of ways is:

This gives:

So, we have:

There can only be a set of 5 young people. So, the probability is: