"At Least" Combination Problem
I've been banging away at this... and I think I'm close, but would really appreciate someone looking over my shoulder... here goes:
- 13 students took part in a matching exercise
- the exercise asked them to match 4 questions to four answers
- 6 of the 13 students got them all right
What is the probability of achieving a result at least this good?
Here’s where I’m at so far:
- the probability of one student getting them all correct is 4! (1 in 24… 0.042)
- the probability of 6 students matching them all is 0.042 to the power of 6 (191 million to 1)
- the number of combinations of 6 out of 13 is 13! / 6! * 7! = 1,716
- so, the probability of getting 6 out of 13 correct is 191 million / 1,716 = 111,000 to 1
Right so far?
Since I want to know the probability of getting at least 6/13 do I have to go further? Do I have to calculate the probability of going 7/13, 8/13… and add all those to this one? Is there an easier way?
Many Thanks.