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Warm-up 2. Suppose that in an experiment we randomly select 5 students from ourclass, one after the other. Let us call our random sample of students ω = (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5),where Si is the i-th selected student.(a) Come up with a random variable X (you may be creative here!) that assigns anumber to each random sample of students ω.(b) What would be the range of your random variable X?(c) Let k be an arbitrary number from the range of X. Explain the meaning ofP(X = k) for the random variable you defined (you do not need to calculate thisquantity)

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Warm-up 2. Suppose that in an experiment we randomly select 5 students from ourclass, one after the other. Let us call our random sample of students ω = (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5),where Si is the i-th selected student.(a) Come up with a random variable X (you may be creative here!) that assigns anumber to each random sample of students ω.(b) What would be the range of your random variable X?(c) Let k be an arbitrary number from the range of X. Explain the meaning ofP(X = k) for the random variable you defined (you do not need to calculate thisquantity)

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(a) Let's define a random variable X as the sum of the ages of the selected students. So, for each random sample ω = (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5), X(ω) would be the sum of the ages of students S1, S2, S3, S4, and S5.

(b) The range of the random variable X would be from the minimum possible sum of ages (if we selected the 5 youngest students) to the maximum possible sum of ages (if we selected the 5 oldest students). The exact numbers would depend on the ages of the students in the class.

(c) Let k be an arbitrary number from the range of X. P(X = k) would represent the probability that the sum of the ages of the 5 randomly selected students is equal to k. This would depend on the distribution of ages in the class.

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