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A person plays a game of tossing a coin thrice. For each head he is given Rs 2 by the organiser of the game and for each tail he has to give Rs 1.50 to the organiser. Let X denote the amount gained or lost by the person. Show that 'X' is a random variable and exhibit it as a function on the sample space of the experiment.

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