The probability of selecting 3 female employees and 7 male employees to win a promotional trip a company with 10 female and 50 male employees would best be modeled with the _______.
A)binomial distribution
B)hypergeometric distribution
C)Poisson distribution
D)hyperbinomial distribution
E)exponential distribution

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The hypergeometric distribution is used when we are selecting without replacement from a finite population divided into two groups, in this case, female and male employees. It is the appropriate model for calculating the probability of selecting a specific number of successes (female employees) and failures (male employees) from the groups without replacement.

The Probability of Selecting 3 Female Employees and 7 Male