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2848031 No.2848031 [Reply] [Original]

So I'm in a statistics course right now, and the teacher is one of those that are only still around due to tenure. He is a terrible teacher (some of us are wondering if he's beginning to go senile =[ ), and honestly leaves the class more confused than when we came in.

I've been getting things from the book okay-ish, but for some reason I am just hitting a wall here, and I know it's something fucking simple. Feels bad man.

Anyway, here's the problem for you intellectually superior gent's:

A deck of 52 cards contains 12 face cards. If you deal 4 cards without replacement, compute the probability distribution fo rthe number of face cards.
Then do the same except WITH replacement.

I'm just hitting a mental block here; help?

>> No.2848050 [DELETED] 

>without replacement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution
>with replacement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergeometric_distribution

>> No.2848054

>without replacement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergeometric_distribution
>with replacement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution

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>>2848054

Thank you!

By the by, this isn't a homework question; just one off a review sheet that has no bearing on grade or anything.

I figured that could be an issue at times on here, along the lines of "We won't do your homework for you"