SOLUTION: 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 green

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Question 618916: 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
green

P(x)
0.20
0.20
0.20
0.30
Answer by stanbon(75887) About Me  (Show Source):
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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----P(x) = 0.20
orange--P(x) = 0.20
brown---P(x) = 0.20
green---P(x) = 0.30
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Comment: The probabilities don't add up to 1.
Cheers,
Stan H.