Answer to Question #311816 in Statistics and Probability for Joannna

Question

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

Answer 1

As there are ten ripe and four unripe bananas, the number of ripe bananas R among the three taken ones, can take on values 0, 1, 2, 3.