Skip to main content
Editing a Embedded answers (Cloze) - math & science question by WIRIS
You have permission to :
Edit this question
General
Category
Default for System (16649)
Test-Lidia
Question name
Question text
<p><strong>Probability</strong></p> <p>A company that has #n employees chooses a committee of #r to represent employee retirement issues. When the committee was formed, none of the #m minority employees were selected.</p> <ol> <li>Find the number of ways #r employees can be chosen from #n.<br />{2:SA:\*~=\#sola}<br /><br /></li> <li>Find the number of ways #r employees can be chosen from #b nonminorities.<br />{2:SA:\*~=\#solb}<br /><br /></li> <li>If the committee was chosen randomly (without bias), what is the probability that it contained no minorities?<br />{2:SA:\*~=\#solc}<br /><br /></li> <li>Does your answer to part 3 indicate that the committee selection was biased?<br />{1:MC:=Yes, because the probability that no minorites are selected is very small~No, because the probability that no minorities are selected is not very small}</li> </ol>
General feedback
WIRIS variables
Algorithm
Settings for multiple tries
Penalty for each incorrect try
100%
50%
33.33333%
25%
20%
10%
0%
Hint 1
Hint text
Options
Clear incorrect responses
Show the number of correct responses
Hint 2
Hint text
Options
Clear incorrect responses
Show the number of correct responses
Created / last saved
Created
by
Admin User
on
Tuesday, 5 November 2013, 10:16 AM
Last saved
by
Admin User
on
Tuesday, 5 November 2013, 10:16 AM
There are required fields in this form marked
.