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Question 212010: Two balls are to be selected without replacement from a bag containing one red, one blue, one green, and one yellow ball. How many points are there in the sample space?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Two balls are to be selected without replacement from a bag containing one red, one blue, one green, and one yellow ball. How many points are there in the sample space?

4 choose 2



The 6 points in the sample space are these 6 
subsets, each containing 2 elements:  

1. {red, blue}
2. {red, green}
3. {red, yellow} 
4. {blue, green} 
5. {blue, yellow}
6. {green, yellow}

Edwin

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