SOLUTION: 7. How many green elements are required to make this a legitimate probability distribution if there are a total of 50 elements in this sample?x red blue orange brown gree

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Question 359657: 7. How many green elements are required to make this a legitimate probability distribution if there are a total of 50 elements in this sample?x
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blue
orange
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P(x)
0.20
0.20
0.32
0.18
Answer by Fombitz(32388) About Me  (Show Source):
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18% of the 50 elements are green or 9 elements.
However, the sum of probabilities should be 1.
Is there another color that has 0.1 or are any of the values incorrect.
Without another contribution, the probability distribution is not valid.