CAIE S1 2016 June — Question 4

Exam BoardCAIE
ModuleS1 (Statistics 1)
Year2016
SessionJune
TopicDiscrete Probability Distributions
TypeSampling without replacement

4 A box contains 2 green sweets and 5 blue sweets. Two sweets are taken at random from the box, without replacement. The random variable \(X\) is the number of green sweets taken. Find \(\mathrm { E } ( X )\) and \(\operatorname { Var } ( X )\).