A lottery that sells 150,000 tickets has the following prize structure: (1) first prize of $1000   (2) 5 second prizes of $200   (3) 25 third prizes of $100   (4) 1000 fourth prizes of $20   (a) Let ? be the winning amount of a randomly drawn lottery ticket.   List the probability distribution of ? for each of the prizes.  Table of ? and f(x)

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A lottery that sells 150,000 tickets has the following prize structure:
(1) first prize of $1000  
(2) 5 second prizes of $200  
(3) 25 third prizes of $100  
(4) 1000 fourth prizes of $20  
(a) Let ? be the winning amount of a randomly drawn lottery ticket.  
List the probability distribution of ? for each of the prizes.  Table of ? and f(x)

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