Describe the state space of this process

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Consider an urn containing 6 white marbles and 4 black marbles. At each step a marble is selected at random from the urn and placed back. Let Xn be the overall number of white marbles observed after n trials, X0 = 0. Describe the state space of this process. Explain why Xn forms a Markov chain and its transition probabilities.

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