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4.5 Exercise 21

Avg difficulty 2.5

Suppose that nine Massachusetts athletes are scheduled to appear at a charity benefit. The nine are randomly chosen from eight volunteers from the local basketball team and four volunteers from the local football team. We are interested in the number of football players picked.

  1. In words, define the random variable X.
  2. List the values that X may take on.
  3. Give the distribution of X. X ~ _____(_____,_____)
  4. Are you choosing the nine athletes with or without replacement?

OpenStax Statistics, 4.5 Hypergeometric Distribution (Optional), exercise 21

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