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An instructor who taught two sections of engineering statistics last term, the first with 20 students and the second with 30, decided to assign a term project. After all projects had been turned in, the instructor
randomly ordered them before grading. Consider the first 15 graded projects.
a. What are the mean value and standard deviation of the number among these 15 that are from the second section?
b. What are the mean value and standard deviation of the number of projects not among these first 15 that are from the second section?

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This solution shows how to find the mean and standard deviation from the given parameters of a hypergeometric distribution.

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Hypergeometric distribution

An instructor who taught two sections of engineering statistics last term, the first with 20 students and the second with 30, decided to assign a term project. After all projects had been turned in, the instructor randomly ordered them before ...

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