document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1105513>Question 1105513</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> an industrial process manufactures items that can be classified as either defective or not defective. the probability that an item is defective is 0.1. an experiment is conducted in which 5 items are drawn randomly from the process. let the random variable X be the number of defective in this sample of 5. What is the probability mass function of x? </SPAN>\n" );
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