Suppose a coin having probability 0.7 of coming up heads is tossed three times. Let X denote the number of heads that appear in the three tosses. (a) List down the possible values of X. (b) Determine the probability mass function of X.

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2. Suppose a coin having probability 0.7 of coming up heads is tossed three times. Let X denote the
number of heads that appear in the three tosses.
(a) List down the possible values of X.
(b) Determine the probability mass function of X.

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