Princess, the purchasing officer of a large manufacturing company, inspects ten items selected at random from a lot of 50 items that contains five defective items. Let X be the number of defective items inspected. a. Find the expected number of defective items among the inspected items. b. Find the mean and variance of X.

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4. Princess, the purchasing officer of a large manufacturing company, inspects ten items
selected at random from a lot of 50 items that contains five defective items. Let X be
the number of defective items inspected.
a. Find the expected number of defective items among the inspected items.
b. Find the mean and variance of X.
Transcribed Image Text:4. Princess, the purchasing officer of a large manufacturing company, inspects ten items selected at random from a lot of 50 items that contains five defective items. Let X be the number of defective items inspected. a. Find the expected number of defective items among the inspected items. b. Find the mean and variance of X.
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