JEE Main · 2024 · 05 Apr 2024 · Shift 1 · Probability

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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

JEE Main · 2024 · 05 Apr 2024 · Shift 1 · Integer answer

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