From an Inventory of 48 New Cars Being Shipped to Local

question 51

Multiple Choice

From an inventory of 48 new cars being shipped to local dealerships, corporate reports indicate that 12 have defective radios installed. Which of the following distributions would you use to figure out the probability that out of the 8 new cars it just received that, when each is tested, no more than 2 of the cars have defective radios?

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

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