An Undergraduate Study Committee of 6 Members at a Major

question 199

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 determine the probability that half of the members will be women?

• A)Hypergeometric distribution.
• B)Poisson distribution.
• C)Uniform distribution.
• D)Binomial distribution.

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