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A box contains 1 white and 3 identical black balls. Two balls are drawn at random in succession without replacement. Write the sample space for this experiment.

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Let R denote the red ball and W denote the identical white ball
The 2 ball selected at random in succession without replacement
Sample space is S={RW,WR,WW}
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