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OpenStax, Introductory Statistics 2e §4.5 Hypergeometric Distribution · Exercise 1 · Probability · Discrete distributions

Hypergeometric Distribution · Exercise 1

Suppose that a group of statistics students is divided into two groups: business majors and non-business majors. There are 16 business majors in the group and seven non-business majors in the group. A random sample of nine students is taken. We are interested in the number of business majors in the sample.

In words, define the random variable X.

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OpenStax, Introductory Statistics 2e · §4.5 Hypergeometric Distribution · Exercise 1

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