Two cards are drawn successively with replacement from a well-shuffled pack of 52 cards. Then mean of number…

Two cards are drawn successively with replacement from a well-shuffled pack of 52 cards. Then mean of number of tens is
  1. $\frac{1}{13}$
  2. $\frac{1}{169}$
  3. $\frac{2}{13}$
  4. $\frac{4}{169}$

Solution

Probability of getting ten $=\frac{4}{52}=\frac{1}{13}$ $\therefore \quad$ Probability of getting a card without ten $=\frac{12}{13}$ Let random variable $\mathrm{X}$ denotes the number of tens. $\therefore \quad$ Possible values of $\mathrm{X}$ are $0,1,2$ Consider following probability distribution table. \begin{array}{|l|c|c|c|} \hline \mathrm{X}=x & 0 & 1 & 2 \\ \hline \mathrm{P}(\mathrm{X}=x) & \frac{12}{13} \times \frac{12}{13} & \frac{1}{13} \times \frac{12}{13}+\frac{12}{13} \times \frac{1}{13} & \frac{1}{13} \times \frac{1}{13} \\ \hline \end{array} $\therefore \quad$ Required mean $\begin{aligned} & =0+1 \times\left(\frac{12}{13 \times 13}+\frac{12}{13 \times 13}\right)+2 \times\left(\frac{1}{13} \times \frac{1}{13}\right) \\ & =\frac{24}{169}+\frac{2}{169} \\ & =\frac{26}{169} \\ & =\frac{2}{13} \end{aligned}$

Asked in: MHT CET 2023 (11 May Shift 2)

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