A Club with 20 Women and 17 Men Needs to Form

question 42

Short Answer

a club with 20 women and 17 men needs to form a committee of size six.
-How many committees are possible?

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Definitions:

Row Variable

A variable that constitutes the basis for organizing data in rows in a table or matrix, often used in cross-tabulation.

Column Variable

A variable represented in one of the vertical columns of a data table, often used in multivariate analysis and cross-tabulations.

Critical Value

A point on the scale of a statistical distribution that corresponds to a specified level of significance, used in hypothesis testing to determine whether to reject the null hypothesis.

Alpha

The significance level in statistical tests, denoting the probability threshold at which the null hypothesis is rejected in favor of the alternative hypothesis.