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An overseas shipment of 5 foreign automobiles contains 2 that have slight paint blemishes. If an agency receives 3 of these automobiles at random, list the elements of the sample space S, using the letters B and N for blemished and nonblemished, respectively; then to each sample point assign a value x of the random variable X representing the number of automobiles with paint blemishes purchased by the agency.

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The overseas shipment has 5 automobiles out of which 2 have slight paint blemishes.

Automobiles can be: [A_1,A_2,A_3,B_1,B_2]

where A_i's denotes the non-blemished and B_i's denotes the blemished ones.

Let X be the number of automobiles purchased with paint blemishes.

Element of sample space S for X =0,1,2

Case 1: For X=0

Sample space will be (A_1,A_2,A_3)

Case 2: For X=1

Sample space will be:

[(A_1,A_2,B_1),(A_1,A_2,B_2),(A_1,A_3,B_1),\\ (A_1,A_3,B_2),(A_3,A_2,B_1),(A_3,A_2,B_2)]

Case 3: For X=2

Sample space will be:

[(A_1,B_1,B_2),(A_2,B_1,B_2),(A_3,B_1,B_2)]

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