OCR S1 Specimen — Question 5

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
SessionSpecimen
TopicDiscrete Probability Distributions
TypeSampling without replacement

5 A sixth-form class consists of 7 girls and 5 boys. Three students from the class are chosen at random. The number of boys chosen is denoted by the random variable \(X\). Show that
  1. \(\quad \mathrm { P } ( X = 0 ) = \frac { 7 } { 44 }\),
  2. \(\mathrm { P } ( X = 2 ) = \frac { 7 } { 22 }\). The complete probability distribution of \(X\) is shown in the following table.
    \(x\)0123
    \(\mathrm { P } ( X = x )\)\(\frac { 7 } { 44 }\)\(\frac { 21 } { 44 }\)\(\frac { 7 } { 22 }\)\(\frac { 1 } { 22 }\)
  3. Calculate \(\mathrm { E } ( X )\) and \(\operatorname { Var } ( X )\).