Consider randomly selecting 1 student from a group of 19 , where 11 are boys and eight are girls. There are 19 possible outcomes: 11 are favourable to the event selecting a boy and eight are favourable to the event selecting a girl, as shown in the following table. \begin{tabular}{|l|l|l|} \hline Event/outcome & Frobability & Description \\ \hline Selecting any particular boy & \( \frac{1}{19} \) & \multirow{3}{*}{These three cutcomes are equally likely.} \\ \hline Selecting any particular girl & \( \frac{1}{19} \) & \\ \hline Selecting any particular student & \( \frac{1}{19} \) & \\ \hline Selecting a boy & \( \frac{11}{19} \) & 11 of the 19 equally likely outcomes are favourable to this event. \\ \hline Selecting a girl & \( \frac{8}{19} \) & 8 of the 19 equally likely outcomes are favourable to this event. \\ \hline \end{tabular}
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