Compute the Probabilities of Hypergeometric Experiments

question 114

Multiple Choice

Compute the Probabilities of Hypergeometric Experiments
-A manufacturer receives a shipment of 160 laptop computers of which 12 are defective. To test the shipment, the quality control engineer randomly selects 25 computers from the shipment and tests them. The random variable X represents the number of defective computers in the sample. What is the probability of obtaining 4 defective computers

• A) 0.0728
• B) 0.0779
• C) 0.0856
• D) 0.0655

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