Two balls are drawn in succession without replacement from an urn containing 5 white balls and 6 black balls. Let B be the random variable representing the number of black balls. Construct the probability distribution of the random variable B.

Two balls are drawn in succession without replacement from an urn containing 5 white balls and 6 black balls. Let B be the random variable representing the number of black balls. Construct the probability distribution of the random variable B.

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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