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Probability of a women being selected first?

Five men and three women are waiting to be interviewed for jobs. If they are all selected in random order, find the probability that the first person interviewed will be a woman. Your simulation should use at least 10 runs.

Public Comments

1. the probability of a woman being selected first is 3 in 8, that is, 37.5%
2. It makes no difference what gender is interviewed. The probablility is, with everything else being equal, that the last person interviewed will be hired.
3. To create your simulation, have 5 red cards and 3 black cards then place them in a box. randomly get one card and note the color. if the color is red, that means the first person to be interviewed is a man, otherwise a woman. then do several trials of these. only you can do your simulation. you expect to have close to 3/8 chances of getting a woman to be interviewed first. this is determining the probability by experimentation and not by theoretical approach.