JEE Main 2024 — Statistics Question with Solution
JEE Main 2024 (05 Apr Shift 1)
Question
From a lot of 10 items, which include 3 defective items, a sample of 5 items is drawn at random. Let the random variable denote the number of defective items in the sample. If the variance of is , then is equal to ______
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Show full solutionCorrect answer: 56
Correct answer
56
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denotes number of defective
$\begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|c|}
\hline \mathrm{x} & 0 & 1 & 2 & 3 \\
\hline \mathrm{P}(\mathrm{x}) & \frac{7}{15} & \frac{5}{12} & \frac{5}{12} & \frac{1}{12} \\
\hline \mathrm{x}_1{ }^2 & 0 & 1 & 4 & 9 \\
\hline \mathrm{P}_{\mathrm{i}} \mathrm{x}_1{ }^2 & 0 & \frac{5}{12} & \frac{20}{12} & \frac{9}{12} \\
\hline \mathrm{p}_{\mathrm{i}} \mathrm{x}_{\mathrm{i}} & 0 & \frac{5}{12} & \frac{10}{12} & \frac{3}{12} \\
\hline
\end{array}$
$\begin{aligned}
& \Sigma \mathrm{p}_{\mathrm{i}} \mathrm{x}_1^2=\frac{34}{12} \\
& \sigma^2=\Sigma \mathrm{p}_{\mathrm{i}} \mathrm{x}_1^2-(\mu)^2
\end{aligned}$
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