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9709 P6 - Nov 2005 - Q5
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A box contains 300 discs of different colours. There are 100 pink discs, 100 blue discs and 100 orange discs. The discs of each colour are numbered from 0 to 99. Five discs are selected at random, one at a time, with replacement. Find

  1. the probability that no orange discs are selected,
  2. the probability that exactly 2 discs with numbers ending in a 6 are selected,
  3. the probability that exactly 2 orange discs with numbers ending in a 6 are selected,
  4. the mean and variance of the number of pink discs selected.
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