There are 3 boys and 2 girls at a party.Three party-goers are selected at random togo on a root-beer run. Let W denote thenumber of girls in the group of three that goon the root-beer run.Compute the expected number of girls whogo on the root-beer run, E[W].

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There are 3 boys and 2 girls at a party.
Three party-goers are selected at random to
go on a root-beer run. Let W denote the
number of girls in the group of three that go
on the root-beer run.
Compute the expected number of girls who
go on the root-beer run, E[W].

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There are 3 boys and 2 girls at the party.

Three party-goers are selected at random to go on the root beer run.

An event $W$ is a number of girls in a group of three that go on the root beer run.

The expected value formula is as follows

$E [W] = \sum_{i = 1}^{n} w_{i} P (W = w_{i})$

The combination formula is as follows.

${}^{n}{C_{x} = \frac{n!}{(n - x)! x!}}$

The factorial is as follows.

$n! = n \times (n - 1) \times (n - 2) \times . . . \times 1$

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There are 3 boys and 2 girls at a party. Three party-goers are selected at random to go on a root-beer run. Let W denote the number of girls in the group of three that go on the root-beer run. Compute the expected number of girls who go on the root-beer run, E[W].