JEE Main 2024MathematicsProbabilityProbability Distribution Of A Random VariablemediumNumerical

JEE Main 2024Probability Question with Solution

From: JEE Main 2024 (Online) 8th April Morning Shift

Question

Three balls are drawn at random from a bag containing 5 blue and 4 yellow balls. Let the random variables and respectively denote the number of blue and yellow balls. If and are the means of and respectively, then is equal to ___________.

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Show full solutionCorrect answer: 17
Correct answer
17

Step-by-step explanation

3 2 1 0
0 1 2 3

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