Suppose a marketing professor randomly selects 3 new teaching assistants from a total of 10 applicants - 6 male and 4 female applicants. Let X be the number of females who are hired. Answer all questions to 3 decimal places. What is the probability that the number of female applicants hired is 1? What is the standard deviation of the number of females hired? What is the expected number of females hired?
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