A Jury Is to Be Selected from a Pool of 34

question 90

Multiple Choice

A jury is to be selected from a pool of 34 potential jurors. The defendant faces the death penalty if convicted. Ofthe potential jurors, 7 are opposed to the death penalty. The jury consists of 12 randomly selected jurors. Therandom variable X represents the number of jurors who oppose the death penalty.

• A) hypergeometric; \(\mathrm { N } = 34 , \mathrm { n } = 12 , \mathrm { k } = 7 , \mathrm { x } = 0,1,2 , \ldots , 7\)
• B) hypergeometric; \(\mathrm { N } = 34 , \mathrm { n } = 7 , \mathrm { k } = 12 , \mathrm { x } = 0,1,2 , \ldots , 7\)
• C) hypergeometric; \(\mathrm { N } = 34 , \mathrm { n } = 12 , \mathrm { k } = 7 , \mathrm { x } = 0,1,2 , \ldots , 12\)
• D) not hypergeometric

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