A University Must Choose a Team of 5 Students to Participate

question 8

Multiple Choice

A university must choose a team of 5 students to participate in a TV quiz show. The students will be chosen atrandom from a pool of 44 potential participants of whom 20 are women. The random variable X represents thenumber of women on the team.

• A) hypergeometric; \(\mathrm { N } = 44 , \mathrm { n } = 5 , \mathrm { k } = 20 , \mathrm { x } = 0,1,2,3,4,5\)
• B) hypergeometric; \(\mathrm { N } = 44 , \mathrm { n } = 20 , \mathrm { k } = 5 , \mathrm { x } = 0,1,2,3,4,5\)
• C) hypergeometric; \(\mathrm { N } = 44 , \mathrm { n } = 5 , \mathrm { k } = 20 , \mathrm { x } = 0,1,2 , \ldots , 20\)
• D) not hypergeometric

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