SOLUTION: PLEASE HELP 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 br

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Question 618789: PLEASE HELP
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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P(x)
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0.30
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red

 blue

 orange

 brown

 green



 P(x)

 0.20

 0.20

 0.20

 0.30

0.10

 1

How many green elements are required to make this a legitimate probability distribution?  .10(50) = 5 green

total of 50 elements in this sample