A sample of two balls is chosen at random from a box containing 5 white and 5 black balls, and we denote by X the number of black balls in the sample. (a) Give the probability mass function of X. (b) If two more balls are chosen from the remaining 8 balls, what is the probability that these two additional balls are black? (c) What is the conditional probability that the two balls from the first sample were white given that the two balls from the second sample are black?

A sample of two balls is chosen at random from a box containing 5 white and 5 black balls, and we denote by X the number of black balls in the sample. (a) Give the probability mass function of X. (b) If two more balls are chosen from the remaining 8 balls, what is the probability that these two additional balls are black? (c) What is the conditional probability that the two balls from the first sample were white given that the two balls from the second sample are black?

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3. A sample of two balls is chosen at random from a box containing 5 white and 5 black balls, and we denote by X the number of black balls in the sample.

(a) Give the probability mass function of X.

(b) If two more balls are chosen from the remaining 8 balls, what is the probability that these two additional balls are black?

(c) What is the conditional probability that the two balls from the first sample were white given that the two balls from the second sample are black?

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