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A Shipment of Six Parrots from Brazil Includes Two Parrots

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A shipment of six parrots from Brazil includes two parrots with a potentially fatal disease.As usual,the U.S.Customs Office at the shipment's point of entry randomly samples two parrots and tests them for disease.Let the random variable X be the number of healthy parrots in the sample.Find the probability distribution of X.


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