A personnel director interviewing 10 senior engineers for four job openings has

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A personnel director interviewing 10 senior engineers for four job openings has scheduled six interviews for the first day and four for the second day of interviewing. Assume that the candidates are interviewed in a random order. (a) What is the probability that x of the top four candidates are interviewed on the first day? h(N; 4, 4, 10) h(x; 6, 4, 10) h(x; 4, 10, 4) h(N; 6, 10, 4) (b) How many of the top four candidates can be expected to be interviewed on the first day? (Round your answer to two decimal places.) candidates

Explanation / Answer

a) this is hypergeomtric distribution

N = 10

k = 6

n = 4

Option-B) h(x; 6, 4, 10)

b) Expected value = n * k / N = 4 * 6 / 10 = 2.4

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