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  1. Of the 2500 accounts of a particular bank, 125 have been fraudulently altered. The alterations are sufficiently subtle that only a detailed audit can uncover them. Fifty business accounts are chosen at random for detailed auditing. Let X be a random variable for the number of fraudulently altered accounts in the sample of fifty.
  2. (a) ExplainwhyXfollowsahypergeometricdistribution,andgivetheparametersofthedistribution. (b) Find the probability that the sample will contain at least two accounts that have been altered. (c) Can the distribution for X be approximated by the binomial distribution? Explain.

(d) Regardless of your answer in (c), use the binomial distribution to approximate the probability in (b). 

 
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