An Undergraduate Study Committee of 6 members at a major university is to be formed from a pool of faculty of 18 men and 6 women. Which of the following distributions would you use to
Determine the probability that half of the members will be women?
A) Hypergeometric distribution.
B) Poisson distribution.
C) Uniform distribution.
D) Binomial distribution.

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The hypergeometric distribution is used for sampling without replacement from a finite population, which fits this scenario of selecting committee members from a fixed pool of faculty.

An Undergraduate Study Committee of 6 Members at a Major