Question
An urn contains 5 red and 2 black balls. Two balls are randomly drawn, without replacement. Let X represent the number of black balls drawn. What are the possible values of X? Is X a random variable? If yes, find the mean and variance of X.

Answer

Possible values of x are 0, 1, 2 and x is a random variable:
$\text{x:}$ $\text{P(x)}$ $\text{x P(x)}$ $\text{x}^{2} \text{P(x)}$  
0 $\frac{^2{\text{C}_{0}}\times^5{\text{C}_{2}}}{^7{\text{C}_{2}}} = \frac{20}{42}$ 0 0 $\text{For P (x)}$
1 $\frac{^2{\text{C}_{1}}\times^5{\text{C}_{1}}}{^7{\text{C}_{2}}} = \frac{20}{42}$ $\frac{20}{40}$ $\frac{20}{42}$ $\text{For x P (x)}$
2 $\frac{^2{\text{C}_{2}}\times^5{\text{C}_{0}}}{^7{\text{C}_{2}}} = \frac{2}{42}$ $\frac{4}{42}$ $\frac{8}{42}$ $\text{For x}^{2}\text{ P (x)}$
$\sum \text{x P(x)} = \frac{24}{42}; \sum \text{x}^{2} \text{ P(x)} = \frac{28}{42}$ $\text{Mean} = \sum \text{x P(x)} = \frac{4}{7}; \text{variance} = \sum \text{x}^{2} \text{P(x)} - \bigg[\sum \text{x P (x)}\bigg]^{2}$ $\text{Variance} = \frac{50}{147} =\frac{2}{3}- \frac{16}{49} = \frac{50}{147} $

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