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Two cards are drawn simultaneously (without replacement) from a well-shuffled pack of 52 cards. Find the mean and variance of the number of red cards.

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Total no. of cards in the deck = 52

Number of red cards = 26

No. of cards drawn = 2 simultaneously

∴ X = value of random variable = 0, 1, 2

X or xiP(X)xiP(X)x2iP(X)
0(26C0 x 26C2)/52C2 = 25/10200
1(26C1 x 26C1)/52C2 = 52/10252/10252/102
2(26C0 x 26C2)/52C2 = 25/10250/102100/102
∑xiP(X) = 1∑xi2P(X) = 152/102

Mean = μ = ∑xiP(X) = 1

Variance = σ2 = ∑x2iP(X) - μ2

= 152/102 - 1 = 50/102 = 25/51 = 0.49



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