Edexcel S1 — Question 7

Exam BoardEdexcel
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
TopicGeometric Distribution
TypeSampling without replacement until success

7. A bag contains 4 red and 2 blue balls, all of the same size. A ball is selected at random and removed from the bag. This is repeated until a blue ball is pulled out of the bag. The random variable \(B\) is the number of balls that have been removed from the bag.
  1. Show that \(\mathrm { P } ( B = 2 ) = \frac { 4 } { 15 }\).
  2. Find the probability distribution of \(B\).
  3. Find \(\mathrm { E } ( B )\). The bag and the same 6 balls are used in a game at a funfair. One ball is removed from the bag at a time and a contestant wins 50 pence if one of the first two balls picked out is blue.
  4. What are the expected winnings from playing this game once? For \(\pounds 1\), a contestant gets to play the game three times.
  5. What is the expected profit or loss from the three games?