A supplier of ballpoint pens guarantees a low defective rate.  Sara receives a shipment of 400 pens (and unknown to Sara, but known to you, exactly 12 are defective).  Sara decides to randomly check 100 pens.  Let X be the number of defectives Sara finds among the 100 randomly selected pens.   The possible values of X are whole numbers ranging from _____  to _____

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A supplier of ballpoint pens guarantees a low defective rate.  Sara receives a shipment of 400 pens (and unknown to Sara, but known to you, exactly 12 are defective).  Sara decides to randomly check 100 pens.  Let X be the number of defectives Sara finds among the 100 randomly selected pens.

 

The possible values of X are whole numbers ranging from _____  to _____ 

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