A Company Is Interviewing Applicants for Managerial Positions

question 24

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 7 applicants of whom 6 are women.Unable to differentiate further between the applicants,they choose two people at random from this group of 7.Let the random variable X be the number of men that are chosen.Find the standard deviation of X.

• A)σ = 0.49
• B)σ = 0.42
• C)σ = 0.45
• D)σ = 0.20
• E)σ = 0.55

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