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A university must choose a team of 6 students to participate in a TV quiz show. The students will be chosen from a pool of 32 potential participants of whom 14 are women.
 
  If the 6 students are chosen at random, what is the probability that the team will contain 2 women? A) 0.3073 B) 0.2766 C) 0.2874 D) 0.2587

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A manufacturer receives a shipment of 170 laptop computers of which 11 are defective. To test the shipment, the quality control engineer randomly selects 20 computers from the shipment and tests them.
 
  The random variable X represents the number of defective computers in the sample. What is the probability of obtaining 3 defective computers? A) 0.0971 B) 0.0991 C) 0.0891 D) 0.0923


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Reply #1 on: Jul 24, 2018
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