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A shipment of five computers contains two that are slightly defective. if a retailer receives three of these computers at random, list the elements of the sample paces 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 by the ratailer which are slightly defective.

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Sample space:


S=\{NNN, NND,NDN,DNN, NDD,




DDN, DND\}

Let X= the number of slightly defective computers. The possible values of X are

0,1,2.



P(X=0)=\dfrac{\dbinom{2}{0}\dbinom{5-2}{3-0}}{\dbinom{5}{3}}=\dfrac{1(1)}{10}=\dfrac{1}{10}




P(X=1)=\dfrac{\dbinom{2}{1}\dbinom{5-2}{3-1}}{\dbinom{5}{3}}=\dfrac{2(3)}{10}=\dfrac{3}{5}

P(X=2)=\dfrac{\dbinom{2}{2}\dbinom{5-2}{3-2}}{\dbinom{5}{3}}=\dfrac{1(3)}{10}=\dfrac{3}{10}


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