A drawer contains 5 black socks and 10 red socks

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Problem

A drawer contains 5 black socks and 10 red socks. Four socks are drawn at random without replacement. Explain why the number of black socks drawn does not follow a binomial distribution.

Related theory

Independent Events
Independence
Discrete Distributions
The Binomial Distribution

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