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jace

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Explain how it can be misleading to report only the mean of a distribution without any measure of the variability.
 
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Given that x is a hypergeometric random variable, compute p(x) for N = 8, n = 5, r = 3, and x = 2.
 
  A) .140 B) .343 C) .536 D) .464


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Reply #1 on: Jun 24, 2018
Answer to Question 1

When comparing means from two different distributions, the difference between them may be insignificant if the variability in one or both of the distributions is large.

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YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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