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A Jury Is to Be Selected from a Pool of 34

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A jury is to be selected from a pool of 34 potential jurors. The defendant faces the death penalty if convicted. Ofthe potential jurors, 7 are opposed to the death penalty. The jury consists of 12 randomly selected jurors. Therandom variable X represents the number of jurors who oppose the death penalty.


A) hypergeometric; N=34,n=12,k=7,x=0,1,2,,7\mathrm { N } = 34 , \mathrm { n } = 12 , \mathrm { k } = 7 , \mathrm { x } = 0,1,2 , \ldots , 7
B) hypergeometric; N=34,n=7,k=12,x=0,1,2,,7\mathrm { N } = 34 , \mathrm { n } = 7 , \mathrm { k } = 12 , \mathrm { x } = 0,1,2 , \ldots , 7
C) hypergeometric; N=34,n=12,k=7,x=0,1,2,,12\mathrm { N } = 34 , \mathrm { n } = 12 , \mathrm { k } = 7 , \mathrm { x } = 0,1,2 , \ldots , 12
D) not hypergeometric

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