A clinic employs nine physicians. Five of the physicians are female. Four patients arrive at once. Assuming the doctors are assigned randomly to patients, what is the probability that all of the assigned physicians are female?
A).0397
B).0295
C).0808
D).0533

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The probability that all of the assigned physicians are female is calculated by dividing the number of ways to choose 4 female physicians out of 5 by the total number of ways to choose any 4 physicians out of 9. This is calculated as (5C4)/(9C4) = 5/126 = 0.0397.

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