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Lightbulbs A machine produces lightbulbs. As part of a quality control procedure, a sample of five lightbulbs is collected each hour and the number of defective lightbulbs among these is observed.
(a) What is the sample space for this experiment?
(b) Describe the event “there are at most two defective lightbulbs” as a subset of the sample space.
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