CAIE S1 2003 June — Question 2

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2003
SessionJune
TopicDiscrete Probability Distributions
TypeSampling without replacement

2 A box contains 10 pens of which 3 are new. A random sample of two pens is taken.
  1. Show that the probability of getting exactly one new pen in the sample is \(\frac { 7 } { 15 }\).
  2. Construct a probability distribution table for the number of new pens in the sample.
  3. Calculate the expected number of new pens in the sample.