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68. Let X denote the number of defective items in a sample of 10 items drawn successively. Since the drawing is done with replacement, the trials are Bernoulli trials.

⇒p=5100=120∴q=1−120=1920

X has a binomial distribution with n=10 and p=120

=10Cx

(1920)10−x.(120)x

P (not more than 1 defective item) =P(X≤1)

=P(X=0)+P(X=1)=10C0

(1920)10+(120)0+10C1
(1920)9+(120)1=(1920)10+10(1920)9.(120)=(1920)9.[1920+1020]=(1920)9.(2920)=(2920).(1920)9

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67. The repeated tosses of a pair of dice are Bernoulli trials. Let X denote the number of times of getting doublets in an experiment of throwing two dice simultaneously four times.

Probability of getting doublets in a single throw of the pair of dice is

p=636=16∴q=1−p=1−16=56

Clearly, X has the binomial distribution w

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66. The repeated tosses of a die are Bernoulli trials. Let X denote the number of successes of getting odd numbers in an experiment of 6 trials.

Probability of getting an odd number in a single throw of a die is, p - 3/6 = 1/2

q = 1 - p = 1/2

X has a binomial distribution.

 

P (at most 5 succes

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66. Let X denote the number of aces obtained. Therefore, X can take any of the values of 0, 1, or 2.

In a deck of 52 cards, 4 cards are aces. Therefore, there are 48 non-ace cards.

X

0

1

2

P (X)

1128/1326192/13266/1326

Then, E (X)=∑PiXi

=0×11281326+1×1921326+2×61326=2041326=213

Therefore, option D is correct

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65. Let X be the random variable representing a number on the die.

The total number of observations is six.

∴P (X=1)=36=12P (X=2)=26=13P (X=5)=16

Therefore, the probability distribution is as follows.

X

1

2

5

P (X)

1/2

1/3

1/6

Mean=E (X)=∑PiXi

=12×1+13×2+16×5=12+23+56=3+4+56=126=2

Therefore, option (B) is correct.

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64. It is given that P (X = 0) = 30% = 30/100 = 0.3

P (X = 1) = 70% = 70/100 = 0.7

Therefore, the probability distribution is as follows.

X

0

1

P (X)

0.3

0.7

Then, E (X)=∑XiP (Xi)=0×0.3+1×0.7=0.7

E (X2)=∑X2iP (Xi)=02×0.3+ (1)2×0.7=0.7

It is know that,  Var (X)=E (X2)− [E (X)]2

= 0.7 − (0.7)2

= 0.7 − 0.49

= 0.21

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63. There are 15 students in the class. Each student has the same chance to be chosen. Therefore, the probability of each student to be selected is 1/15.

The given information can be compiled in the frequency table as follows.

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

2

1

2

3

1

2

3

1

P(X = 14) =2/15, P(X = 15) =1/15, P(X = 16) =2/15, P(X = 16) =3/15,

P(X = 18

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62. When two fair dice are rolled, 6 × 6 = 36 observations are obtained.

P(X = 2) = P(1, 1) = 1/36

P(X = 3) = P (1, 2) + P(2, 1) = 2/36 = 1/18

P(X = 4) = P(1, 3) + P(2, 2) + P(3, 1) = 3/36 = 1/12

P(X = 5) = P(1, 4) + P(2, 3) + P(3, 2) + P(4, 1) = 4/36 = 1/9

P(X = 6) = P(1, 5) + P (2, 4) + P(3, 3) +

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61. The two positive integers can be selected from the first six positive integers without replacement in 6 × 5 = 30 ways

X represents the larger of the two numbers obtained. Therefore, X can take the value of 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6.

For X = 2, the possible observations are (1, 2) and (2, 1).

P(X = 2) =230=115

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60. Two dice thrown simultaneously is the same the die thrown 2 times.

Here, X represents the number of sixes obtained when two dice are thrown simultaneously. Therefore, X can take the value of 0, 1, or 2.

∴ P (X = 0) = P (not getting six on any of the dice) = 25/36

P (X = 1) = P (six on first d

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