Two balls are drawn at random from a bag containing $5$ black balls and $3$ white balls. If the random variable $X$ denotes the number of white balls drawn, then the mean of $X$ is

  • A
    $\frac{1}{2}$
  • B
    $\frac{5}{8}$
  • C
    $\frac{3}{4}$
  • D
    $\frac{3}{8}$

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