A stockroom dlerk retums three safety helmets at random to three steel mill employees who had previously checked them. If Smith, Jones, and Brown, in that order, receive one of the three hats, list the sample points for the possible orders of retuming the helmets, and find the value m of the random variable M that represents the number of correct matches.

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A stockroom dlerk returns three safety helmets at random to three steel mill
employees who had previously checked them. If Smith, Jones, and Brown, in that
order, receive one of the three hats, list the sample points for the possible orders of
returning the helmets, and find the value m of the random variable M that represents
the number of correct matches.
Transcribed Image Text:A stockroom dlerk returns three safety helmets at random to three steel mill employees who had previously checked them. If Smith, Jones, and Brown, in that order, receive one of the three hats, list the sample points for the possible orders of returning the helmets, and find the value m of the random variable M that represents the number of correct matches.
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