Two balls are drawn at random from a bag containing $5$ black balls and $3$ white balls. If the random variable $X$ denotes the number of white balls drawn, then the mean of $X$ is

  • A
    $\frac{1}{2}$
  • B
    $\frac{5}{8}$
  • C
    $\frac{3}{4}$
  • D
    $\frac{3}{8}$

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Let $X$ denote the number of hours you study during a randomly selected school day. The probability that $X$ can take the values $x$ has the following form,where $k$ is some unknown constant.
$P(X=x) = \begin{cases} 0.1, & \text{if } x=0 \\ kx, & \text{if } x=1 \text{ or } 2 \\ k(5-x), & \text{if } x=3 \text{ or } 4 \\ 0, & \text{otherwise} \end{cases}$
What is the probability that you study at least two hours? Exactly two hours? At most two hours?

Let a sample space be $S = \{\omega_{1}, \omega_{2}, \ldots, \omega_{6}\}$. Which of the following assignments of probabilities to each outcome is valid?
Outcome$\omega_1$$\omega_2$$\omega_3$$\omega_4$$\omega_5$$\omega_6$
$(a)$$\frac{1}{6}$$\frac{1}{6}$$\frac{1}{6}$$\frac{1}{6}$$\frac{1}{6}$$\frac{1}{6}$

$A$ student studies for $X$ number of hours during a randomly selected school day. The probability distribution of $X$ is given by the following form,where $k$ is a constant:
$P(X=x) = \begin{cases} 0.2, & \text{if } x=0 \\ kx, & \text{if } x=1 \text{ or } 2 \\ k(6-x), & \text{if } x=3 \text{ or } 4 \\ 0, & \text{otherwise} \end{cases}$
The probability that the student studies for at most two hours is:

If the range of a random variable $X$ is $\{0, 1, 2, 3, 4, \ldots\}$ with $P(X=k) = \frac{(k+1)a}{3^k}$ for $k \geq 0$,then $a$ is equal to

Given below is the probability distribution of a discrete random variable $X$:
$X = x$$1$$2$$3$$4$$5$$6$
$P(X = x)$$k$$0$$2k$$5k$$k$$3k$

Then $P(X \geq 4) = $

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