A hobby gardener planted 20 rose bushes, 8 of which produced red roses and the other 12 produced white roses. The gardener randomly samples 5 rose bushes to be treated with a new plant food. He wants to calculate the probability that only white rose bushes get selected. Which of the following distributions can he use to calculate this probability?
A)the Normal distribution
B)the binomial distribution
C)the Normal approximation to the binomial distribution
D)None of the answer options is correct.

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The situation involves selecting a specific number of items (rose bushes) from a finite population without replacement, which aligns with the hypergeometric distribution rather than the options provided. None of the given distributions (Normal, binomial, or Normal approximation to the binomial) accurately describe this scenario.

A Hobby Gardener Planted 20 Rose Bushes, 8 of Which