Suppose you have 10 tennis balls and you randomly pick some number of them. What is the probability you draw out exactly 7 of them?

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Suppose you have 10 tennis balls and you randomly pick some number of them. What is the probability you draw out exactly 7 of them?

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Here, the number of tennis balls is 10 and each number picked has a probability of 110.

X denotes the number of tennis ball selected.

Here, X follows binomial distribution with parameter n=10 and p=110.

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