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I. Instruction: Solve the following with COMPLETE SOLUTION.

1. Two balls are drawn in succession without replacement from an urn containing 4
red balls and 3 black balls.

a) Construct a probability distribution of a random variable Y where y is the number

of red balls.
b) Find the mean of the probability distribution.
c) Find the variance of the probability distribution
d) Find the standard deviation of the number of balls.

2. The probabilities that a student is registered for 2, 3, 4 or 5 classes are 0.01,

0.34, 0.62, and 0.03 respectively.
a) Construct a probability distribution
b) Find the mean of the probability distribution.
c) Find the variance of the probability distribution
d) Find the standard deviation

II. Determine whether the distribution represents a probability distribution.

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