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A fair coin is tossed 3 times. Let X be equal to 0 or 1 accordingly...

A fair coin is tossed 3 times. Let X be equal to 0 or 1 accordingly as head or tail occurs on a first Toss. Let y equal to number of heads that occurs. Find

A) the distribution of X and Y

B) the joint distribution of X and Y

C) whether they are independent or not

D) the COV (XY)

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