A Financial Analyst Is Presented with Information on the Past

question 31

Multiple Choice

A financial analyst is presented with information on the past records of 60 start-up companies and told that in fact only three of them have managed to become highly successful.He selected three companies from this group as the candidates for success.To analyse his ability to identify the companies that will eventually become highly successful,he will use what type of probability distribution?

• A) Binomial distribution.
• B) Poisson distribution.
• C) Hypergeometric distribution.
• D) None of the above.

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