Probability that at least a certain number of people is chosen

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I have in total $n$ people of which $b$ are bad people and I want to randomly select $v = 5$ people. I want to calculate the probability to choose at least $3$ bad people.

I calculated it as follows:

$$P = \frac{{b\choose 3}*{n-b\choose 2}+{b\choose 4}*{n-b\choose 1}+{b\choose v}}{{n \choose v}} $$

where:

${b\choose 3}*{n-b\choose 2} $ are the ways to choose $3$ bad people and then $2$ good ones,

${b\choose 4}*{n-b\choose 1} $ are the ways to choose $4$ bad people and then a good one,

and finally ${b\choose v}$ are the ways to choose only bad people.

Is this correct?

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Your answer is good, I could understand it, but it is suggested either you write $v$ as $5$ and not have $v$ in your equation, or you have $v$ in your equation, and no $2, 3$, etc. That is for $v \le b$:

$$P = \frac{\Sigma_{x=3}^v\bigg({b\choose x}\cdot{n-b\choose v-x}\bigg)}{{n \choose v}} $$