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An academic department has just completed voting by secret ballot for a department head. The ballot...

An academic department has just completed voting by secret ballot for a department head. The ballot box contains four slips with votes for candidate A and three slips with votes for candidate B. Suppose these slips are removed from the box one by one. For example, one outcome is BBBAAAA. (Enter your answers in set notation. Enter EMPTY or ∅ for the empty set.) (a) List all possible outcomes. This answer has not been graded yet. (b) Suppose a running tally is kept as slips are removed. For what outcomes does A remain ahead of B throughout the tally?

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