From a lot of 20 baskets, which includes 6 defective baskets, a sample of 2 baskets is drawn at random one…

From a lot of 20 baskets, which includes 6 defective baskets, a sample of 2 baskets is drawn at random one by one without replacement. The expected value of number of defective basket is
  1. $0.6$
  2. $0.06$
  3. $0.006$
  4. $1.07$

Solution

Let X denotes the number of defective baskets. \(\therefore\) Possible values of X are \(0,1,2\). Now, selection of baskets is done without replacement, we get \(\begin{aligned} & P(X=0)=\frac{14}{20} \times \frac{13}{19}=\frac{182}{380} \\ & P(X=1)=\frac{14}{20} \times \frac{6}{19}+\frac{6}{20} \times \frac{14}{19}=\frac{168}{380} \\ & P(X=2)=\frac{6}{20} \times \frac{5}{19}=\frac{30}{380} \end{aligned}\) \(\therefore \quad\) Required Expected Value \(\begin{aligned} & =0 \times \mathrm{P}(\mathrm{X}=0)+1 \times \mathrm{P}(\mathrm{X}=1)+2 \times \mathrm{P}(\mathrm{X}=2) \\ & =\frac{168+60}{380}=\frac{228}{380}=0.6 \end{aligned}\)

Asked in: MHT CET 2023 (11 May Shift 1)

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