An Undergraduate Study Committee of 6 Members at a Major

question 9

Multiple Choice

An Undergraduate Study Committee of 6 members at a major university is to be formed from a pool of faculty of 18 men and 6 women. Which of the following distributions would you use to figure out the probability that half of the members will be women?

• A) Poisson distribution
• B) uniform distribution
• C) exponential distribution
• D) hypergeometric distribution

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