SOLUTION: A child is out trick-or-treating on Halloween. She goes to a house and is told to randomly pick two candies from a bucket with 5 Skittles and 3 M&Ms. Let the random variable Y be
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Question 977457: A child is out trick-or-treating on Halloween. She goes to a house and is told to randomly pick two candies from a bucket with 5 Skittles and 3 M&Ms. Let the random variable Y be the number of Skittles that she gets. Create the probability distribution for Y (rounding each to THREE decimal places).
What is the mean of the above distribution?
You can put this solution on YOUR website! There are 4 possible outcomes from picking 2 candies.
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SM
MS
MM
and their probabilities are,
So then, , , ,
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