A hypergeometric random variable x has a distribution that is approximated by a binomial distribution when:
A)The number of successes is larger than the number of failures in the population.
B)A sample is selected from the population without replacement.
C)The population is much larger than the sample size.
D)The sample size is half the size of the original population.

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The hypergeometric distribution can be approximated by a binomial distribution when the population size is much larger than the sample size, making the probability of success approximately constant.

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