To ensure quality,customer calls for airline fare quotations are monitored at random.On a particular Thursday afternoon,ticket agent Bob gives 40 fare quotations,of which 4 are incorrect.In a random sample of 8 of these customer calls,which model best describes the number of incorrect quotations Bob will make?
A)Binomial
B)Poisson
C)Hypergeometric
D)Uniform

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The hypergeometric distribution is appropriate here because we are sampling without replacement from a finite population of calls, where there are a fixed number of incorrect quotations.

To Ensure Quality,customer Calls for Airline Fare Quotations Are Monitored