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Question 477207: Help! The process please?
Give all possible values of the random variable.
Two people are selected at random from eight men and seven women. The random variable is the number of men selected. (answers as a comma-separated list.)

Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You could have 0 men (ie both are women)


You could have 1 man (ie the other is a woman)


or


You could have 2 men (and no women)


So if X = number of men chosen, then X=0, X=1, or X=2 are all of the possible values of the random variable.

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