A vending machine has been known to be "finicky," that is, it will only sometimes accept dollar bills that are fed into it. Let X represent the number of bills accepted out of the last four tried. X 0 1 2 3 4 probability 0.05 0.15 0.15 0.22 0.33 Does the table below show a correct probability model for X? Yes, because all probabilities and all values for X are represented.   Yes, because all of the probabilities are between 0 and 1.       No, because the sample space is missing values for X.   No, because the probabilities do not sum to 1.

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A vending machine has been known to be "finicky," that is, it will only sometimes accept dollar bills that are fed into it. Let X represent the number of bills accepted out of the last four tried.

X 0 1 2 3 4
probability 0.05 0.15 0.15 0.22 0.33



Does the table below show a correct probability model for X?

Yes, because all probabilities and all values for X are represented.
 
Yes, because all of the probabilities are between 0 and 1.    
 
No, because the sample space is missing values for X.
 
No, because the probabilities do not sum to 1.
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