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

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Question 977326: 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).
Now, give the following probability:
P(Y=0)=Answer
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There are ways to pick 2 M&Ms out of ways to pick anything.

There are ways to pick 1 M&M and 1 Skittles out of ways to pick anything.

and

There are ways to pick 2 Skittles out of ways to pick anything.

Note: . You can do your own arithmetic.

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it