SOLUTION: Assume that the committee is made up of 5 males and 3 females. Two are selected at random, and a random variable X is defined to be the number of females selected.
How many dif
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Question 1135381: Assume that the committee is made up of 5 males and 3 females. Two are selected at random, and a random variable X is defined to be the number of females selected.
How many different values are possible for the random variable X
X? Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source):
Explanation:
We can only select two people. We could have X = 0 females chosen (ie have 2 men selected), or X = 1 female chosen (1 woman, 1 man), or X = 2 females are selected (no men are selected in this scenario). This constitutes all the possible values that X can take on. So there are three different values for X. The random variable X is a discrete variable because it can only take on finitely many whole numbers.
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