Show work Question 3Consider a sequence of random variables X1, X2,.... Suppose X follows a discrete distri-bution taking two possible values {0, n²}, with P(X,=0) = 1 – and P(X, = n²) = !.(а)Calculate E(Xn). What happens to E(Xn) as n → 0?(b)and prove. If not, explain.Does X, converge in probability to some real number? If so, find that number

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