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An employee of the records office at a certain university currently has ten forms on his...

An employee of the records office at a certain university currently has ten forms on his desk awaiting processing. Six of these are withdrawal petitions and the other four are course substitution requests.

a. If he randomly selects six of these forms to give to a subordinate, what is the probability that only one of the two types of forms remains on his desk?

b. Suppose he has time to process only four of these forms before leaving for the day. If these four are randomly selected one by one, what is the probability that each succeeding form is of a different type from its predecessor?

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