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What are we talking about? Forming a committee of 5 people, choosing from 6 men (M) and 8 women (W).

We have the sets:

 Men with 6 elements: 𝑀𝑒𝑛 = {𝑀1 , 𝑀2 , 𝑀3 , 𝑀4 , 𝑀5 , 𝑀6 }

 Women with 8 elements: 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛 = {𝑊1 , 𝑊2 , 𝑊3 , 𝑊4 , 𝑊5 , 𝑊6 , 𝑊7 , 𝑊8 }
 People with 14 elements: 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 = 𝑀𝑒𝑛 ∪ 𝑊𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛

How many committees of 5 people can be formed (regardless of gender) from the People set with 14 elements?
14!
Number of ways to get any five people groups = 14 𝐶5 = = 2002
5! (14 − 5)!
¿What if exactly 2 men are needed?

We want to form a new set with 5 elements in total. Two items will be from the Men set and 3 items will be from the
Women set. So we look for sets of the form

𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑒 = {𝑀, 𝑀, 𝑊, 𝑊, 𝑊}
Where the order does not matter and does not admit repetition (the same person cannot be included twice in the
committee). To know how many different Committee sets can be formed, we first calculate how many subsets of two men
can be formed from the Men set of 6 elements; this number is given by 6 𝐶2 .

Then we need to know the number of subsets of 3 women that are formed from the set Women of 8 elements: 8 𝐶3 .

Finally, using the product rule, we have that the total number of different MMWWWW Committees that can be formed
is
6! 8!
𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑠 2𝑀 𝑎𝑛𝑑 3𝑊 = 6 𝐶2 × 8 𝐶3 = × = 840
2! (6 − 2)! 3! (8 − 3)!
Now that we know all of the above, comes the next challenge:

What would be the probability that by selecting 5 people at random from the 14, a committee with exactly two men
would be obtained?

Or put another way: What is the probability that selecting any 5 people from among the 14 available, a set of the form
{𝑴, 𝑴, 𝑾, 𝑾, 𝑾} is obtained?

From the conception of probability as a measure of frequency, we conclude that the probability we seek will be given by:
𝑁𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 2 𝑀𝑒𝑛
𝑃(𝑇𝑤𝑜 𝑀𝑒𝑛) = 𝑃( 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑒 = {𝑀, 𝑀, 𝑊, 𝑊, 𝑊} ) =
𝑇𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑠
But we already know this  :

6 𝐶2 × 8 𝐶3 840 60
𝑃(2 𝑀𝑒𝑛) = = = ≈ 0.42
14 𝐶5 2002 143
And we have solved the problem.