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Choose the correct alternative: Four buses carrying 160 students from the same school arrive at a football stadium. The buses carry, respectively, 42, 36, 34, and 48 studen

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Choose the correct alternative:

Four buses carrying 160 students from the same school arrive at a football stadium. The buses carry, respectively, 42, 36, 34, and 48 students. One of the students is randomly selected. Let X denote the number of students that were on the bus carrying the randomly selected student. One of the 4 bus drivers is also randomly selected. Let Y denote the number of students on that bus. Then E(X) and E(Y) respectively are

Options

  • 50, 40

  • 40, 50

  • 40, 75, 40

  • 41, 41

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Solution

40, 75, 40

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Mathematical Expectation
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Chapter 11: Probability Distributions - Exercise 11.6 [Page 219]

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Samacheer Kalvi Mathematics - Volume 1 and 2 [English] Class 12 TN Board
Chapter 11 Probability Distributions
Exercise 11.6 | Q 8 | Page 219

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