A manufacturer receives a shipment of 170 laptop computers of which 11 are defective. To test the shipment,the quality control engineer randomly selects 20 computers from the shipment and tests them. The randomvariable X represents the number of defective computers in the sample. What is the probability of obtaining 3defective computers?
A) 0.0971
B) 0.0991
C) 0.0891
D) 0.0923

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The probability can be calculated using the hypergeometric distribution formula. Given the parameters, the probability of obtaining exactly 3 defective computers is approximately 0.0971.

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