Chance magazine Spring 2002 research statisticians discussed

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Chance magazine Spring 2002 research statisticians discussed the problem of sampling mailrooms for the presence of anthrax spores Let x equal the number of mailrooms contaminated with anthrax spores in a random sample of n mailrooms selected from a population of N mailrooms The researchers showed that the probability distribution for x is given by the formula 11 StatCrunch x A State where k is the number of contaminated mailrooms in the population we have identified this G Google plus pearson com prc Yahoo Chile Bookmarks probability distribution as the hypergeometric distribution Suppose N 100 n 3 and k 20 a Find p 0 b Find p 1 c Find p 2