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A shipments of five computers contains that are slightly defective. If a retailer receives three of these computers at random list the elements of the sample space 5 using the letters D and N for defective and non-defective computers respectively. To each sample point assign a value x of the random variable X representing the number of computers purchased bu the retailer which are slightly defective

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Elements of the sample space: {(N,N,N),(N,N,D),(N,D,N),(D,N,N),N,D,D).(D,N,D),(D,D,N)}.

P(X=0)=\frac{C_2^0C_3^3}{C_5^3}=\frac{1}{10}.

P(X=1)=\frac{C_2^1C_3^2}{C_5^3}=\frac{3}{5}.

P(X=2)=\frac{C_2^2C_3^1}{C_5^3}=\frac{3}{10}.

P(X=3)=0.

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