Affirmative Action Commitments by Industrial Organizations Have Led to an Increase

question 81

Multiple Choice

Affirmative action commitments by industrial organizations have led to an increase in the number of
Women in executive positions. Satellite Office Systems has vacancies for two executives that it will
fill from among four women and six men.
What is the probability that no woman is selected?

• A) 1/5
• B) 1/3
• C) 2/15
• D) 8/15

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Definitions:

Population Variances

The squared deviations of a population's values from the mean, indicating how widely the population data is spread out.

Pooled Proportion Estimate

A method to estimate the combined proportion of two or more groups by pooling their successes and trials.

Proportion of Successes

It is the fraction of successes in a series of Bernoulli trials, representing the number of successes divided by the total number of trials.

Sample Sizes

The number of individuals or observations included in a sample, crucial for determining the study's statistical power.