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Carnival Game In a certain carnival game, the player selects two balls at random from an urn containing two red balls and four white balls. The player receives $5 if the draws two red balls and $1 if he draws one red ball. He loses $1 if no red balls are in the sample. Determine the probability distribution for the experiment of playing the game and observing the player’s earnings.
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