Question

A basket contains 10 ripe and 4 unripe bananas. If three bananas are taken from the basket one after the other, determine the values of the random R representing the number of ripe bananas

Answer 1

Solution.

Let R=for ripe bananas

Let U=for unripe bananas

The sample spaces are;

$S=(RRR,RRU,RUR,URR,RUU,URU,UUR,UUU)$

The table of the outcome and number of R;

Therefore ,the random variable R can take on a value of 0,1,2,3.