A merchant receives a shipment of five photocopying machines, two of which are defective.  He randomly selects three of the machines and checks them for faults. Let the random  variable ? be number of faulty machines in his selection. Find the probability distribution of  random variable ? in the table form

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Section11.8: Probabilities Of Disjoint And Overlapping Events
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A merchant receives a shipment of five photocopying machines, two of which are defective. 
He randomly selects three of the machines and checks them for faults. Let the random 
variable ? be number of faulty machines in his selection. Find the probability distribution of 
random variable ? in the table form.

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