Twenty-five percent of all resumes received by a corporation for a management position are from females. Fifteen resumes will be received tomorrow
a. Define the random variable in words for this experiment.
b. What is the probability that exactly 5 of the resumes will be from females?
c. What is the probability that fewer than 3 of the resumes will be from females?
d. What is the expected number of resumes from women?
e. What is the variance of the number of resumes from women?
a. x = the number of resumes out of 15 that are from females
b. 0.1651
c. 0.2361
d. 3.75
e. 2.8125
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