A Company Is Interviewing Applicants for Managerial Positions

question 178

Multiple Choice

A company is interviewing applicants for managerial positions.They plan to hire two people.They have already rejected most candidates and are left with a group of 10 applicants of whom 4 are women.Unable to differentiate further between the applicants,they choose two people at random from this group of 10.Let the random variable X be the number of men that are chosen.Find the expected value of X.

• A)μ = 1.50
• B)μ = 1.20
• C)μ = 0.80
• D)μ = 0.57
• E)μ = 0.93

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