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Given, a bridge hand is defined as 13 cards selected at random and without replacement from a deck of 52 cards. In a standard deck of cards, there are 13 cards from each suit: hearts, spades, clubs, and diamonds. X is a hand that does not contain a heart. Then we have to find the (i) mean and (ii) standard deviation of X.

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

According to the given information,  X follows a binomial distribution.

We have N=52, n=13, k=39

Then the PDF is given by, 

 

Mean will be,
 
The variance will be,
 
Standard deviation will be, 

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Introductory Statistics
OER Edition, 2013
Openstax
ISBN: 9781938168208

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