Question

Each day at a manufacturing plant, a lot of 8 items are manufactured and three are known to be defective. A sample of 2 of these items is selected from the lot without replacement. What is the probability distribution for the number of defective parts? Also, describe the sample space by letting c indicate a non-defective and d indicate a defective part.

Answer 1

@SithsAndGiggles

Answer 2

@campbell_st

Answer 3

@jdoe0001

Answer 4

@perl

Answer 5

the sample space is { 0 defective, 1 defective, 2 defective }

Answer 6

Let X = # defective parts .