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 ____.
Answer: 56
Solution
= number of defectives (3 defective, 7 good) in a sample of 5 from 10, a hypergeometric variable. Mean .
Variance .
Hence
Variance .
Hence
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