document.write( "Question 1087408: Stats question: An IRS inspector is to select 3 corporations from a list of 15 for tax audit purposes. Of the 15 corporations, 6 earned profits and 9 incurred losses during the year for which the tax returns are to be audited. If the IRS inspector decide to select 3 corporations randomly, find the probability (using the Hypergeometric formula) that the number of corporations in these 3 that incurred losses during the year for which the tax returns are to be audited is \n" ); document.write( "

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A hypergeometric probability distribution is used when the probability of a success changes on every trial.
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\n" ); document.write( "The parameters from this problem are,
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\n" ); document.write( "N = 15, The number of tax returns in the population
\n" ); document.write( "k = 9, The number of tax returns to be audited(successes)
\n" ); document.write( "n = 3, The number of tax returns in the sample
\n" ); document.write( "x = ?, The number of tax returns in the sample that reported losses(successes)
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\n" ); document.write( "in order to determine the probability, you have to specify the value for x
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