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 E(X) and Var(X).
A flower shop has 5 yellow roses, 3 red roses and 2 white roses. Martin chooses 3 roses at random. Draw up the probability distribution table for the number of white roses Martin chooses.
A fair spinner A has edges numbered 1, 2, 3, 3. A fair spinner B has edges numbered -3, -2, -1, 1. Each spinner is spun. The number on the edge that the spinner comes to rest on is noted. Let X be the sum of the numbers for the two spinners.
| Spinner A | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spinner B | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| -3 | -2 | |||
| -2 | 1 | |||
| -1 | ||||
| 1 | ||||
Nadia is very forgetful. Every time she logs in to her online bank she only has a 40% chance of remembering her password correctly. She is allowed 3 unsuccessful attempts on any one day and then the bank will not let her try again until the next day.
| \(x\) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| \(P(X = x)\) | 0.24 |
A pet shop has 9 rabbits for sale, 6 of which are white. A random sample of two rabbits is chosen without replacement.