Five men and five women are ranked according to their scores on an examination. Assume that no two scores are alike and all 10! possible rankings are equally likely. Let X denote the highest ranking achieved by a woman. (For instance if X = 1 then the top ranking person is a female). (a) What are possible values for X?  (b) Compute the probability mass function of X

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Five men and five women are ranked according to their scores on an examination. Assume that no
two scores are alike and all 10! possible rankings are equally likely. Let X denote the highest ranking
achieved by a woman. (For instance if X = 1 then the top ranking person is a female).
(a) What are possible values for X? 
(b) Compute the probability mass function of X

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