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Identifying binomial variables

Problem

A manager oversees 11 female employees and 9 male employees. They need to pick 3 of these employees to go on a business trip, so the manager places all 20 names in a hat and chooses at random. Let X= the number of female employees chosen.
Is X a binomial variable? Why or why not?
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