SOLUTION: A child is out trick-or-treating on Halloween. She goes to a house and is told to randomly pick two candies from a bucket with 5 Skittles and 3 M&Ms. Let the random variable Y be

Question 977457: A child is out trick-or-treating on Halloween. She goes to a house and is told to randomly pick two candies from a bucket with 5 Skittles and 3 M&Ms. Let the random variable Y be the number of Skittles that she gets. Create the probability distribution for Y (rounding each to THREE decimal places).
What is the mean of the above distribution?

Answer:
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
There are 4 possible outcomes from picking 2 candies.
SS
SM
MS
MM
and their probabilities are,

So then,
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