A statistics class consists of 10 females and 30 males. Each day, 12 of the students are
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A statistics class consists of 10 females and 30 males. Each day, 12 of the students are randomly selected without replacement, and the number of females is counted. Using the methods of this section we get μ = 3.0 females and σ = 1.5 females, but the value of the standard deviation is wrong. Why don’t the methods of this section give the correct results here?
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