From an inventory of 48 new cars being shipped to local dealerships,corporate reports indicate that 12 have defective radios installed.Which of the following distributions would you use to determine the probability that out of the 8 new cars it just received that,when each is tested,no more than 2 of the cars have defective radios?
A)Hypergeometric distribution.
B)Poisson distribution.
C)Uniform distribution.
D)Binomial distribution.

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The hypergeometric distribution is appropriate here because it deals with draws without replacement from a finite population where each draw can result in one of two outcomes (defective or not defective radio), which exactly matches the scenario described.

From an Inventory of 48 New Cars Being Shipped to Local