Answer to Question #313708 in Statistics and Probability for josh

Question

 A basket contains 6 ripe and 2 unripe bananas. If three bananas are taken from the baskets one after the other, determine the possible values of the random variable R representing the number of ripe bananas.

Answer 1

As there are six ripe and two unripe bananas, the number of ripe bananas R among the three taken ones, can take on values 1, 2, 3 (at least one of them is ripe) .