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A Bingo card has 25 squares with numbers on 24 of them, the center being a free square. The integers that are placed on the Bingo card are selected randomly and without replacement from 1 to 75, inclusive. When a game called “cover-up” is played, balls numbered from 1 to 75, inclusive, are selected randomly and without replacement until a player covers each of the numbers on a card. Let X equal the number of balls that must be drawn to cover all the numbers on a single card.
(a) Argue that the pmf of X, for
(b) What value of X is most likely to occur? In other words, what is the
(c) To show that the mean of X is
(d) Show that
(e) Calculate
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