SOLUTION: ANY HELP WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED Three balls are selected at random without replacement from an urn containing four green balls and six red balls. Let the random variable X d

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Question 436126: ANY HELP WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED
Three balls are selected at random without replacement from an urn containing four green balls and six red balls. Let the random variable X denote the number of green balls drawn.
a. List the outcomes of the experiment
b. Find the value assigned to each outcome of the experiment by the random variable X
c. Find the event comprising the outcomes to which a value of 3 has been assigned by X
Answer by edjones(8007) About Me  (Show Source):
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3 green 4C3 = 4
2 green 4C2 * 6C1 = 6*6 = 36
1 green 4C1 * 6C2 = 4*15= 60
0 green 6C3 = 20
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The wording of the problem is unclear. Above is the number of combinations for each event.
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Ed