OCR MEI S1 — Question 3

Exam BoardOCR MEI
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
TopicDiscrete Probability Distributions
TypeVerify probability from combinatorial selection

3 In a phone-in competition run by a local radio station, listeners are given the names of 7 local personalities and are told that 4 of them are in the studio. Competitors phone in and guess which 4 are in the studio.
  1. Show that the probability that a randomly selected competitor guesses all 4 correctly is \(\frac { 1 } { 35 }\). Let \(X\) represent the number of correct guesses made by a randomly selected competitor. The probability distribution of \(X\) is shown in the table.
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    \(\mathrm { P } ( X = r )\)0\(\frac { 4 } { 35 }\)\(\frac { 18 } { 35 }\)\(\frac { 12 } { 35 }\)\(\frac { 1 } { 35 }\)
  2. Find the expectation and variance of \(X\).