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A shipment of 6 television sets contains 2 defective sets. A hotel makes a random purchase...
A shipment of 6 television sets contains 2 defective sets. A hotel makes a random purchase of 3 of the sets. If x is the number of defective sets purchased by the hotel, nd the cumulative distribution function of the random variable X representing the number of defective. Then using F(x), find
(a) P(X = 1)
(b) P(0 < X <=2).
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