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Transcribed Image Text:4. An IT department at a small business has 9 laptop computers and 18 desktop computers. The
research group is allocated twelve computers.
a. What is the probability that the research department will obtain exactly 8 laptops?
b. What is the expected value of the distribution of the number of laptops obtained?
c. What is the variance of the distribution of the number of laptops obtained?
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