What is the expectation of X?

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An urn holds 4 red, 3 blue, and 2 green marbles.
Three marbles are selected, altogether, without replacement.
Let X be the number of different colors obtained.
(For example, if you get 3 blues, then X = 1, but if you get 2 reds and a green, then X = 2.)

What is the expectation of X?

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Step 1: Define distribution

Here without replacement model so use hypergeometric distribution. Probability homework question answer, step 1, image 1

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