Binomial probability, similar to lottery problems.

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Homework Statement


An opaque bag contains 10 green counters, and 20 red ones. One counter is drawn at random and not replaced: green scores one, red scores zero. Five counters are drawn.

Find the probability of scoring 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 points.


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The Attempt at a Solution


I found it pretty straighforward to work out with replacement, as it is just the simple binomial probability. But when the counters aren't replaced, surely the order counts, so i tried replacing nCr with nPr though this gave me the completely wrong answer. i know this resembles the lottery problem, but i don't understand what to do when there are only 2 distinguishable groups.
 
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