JEE Main & Advanced Mathematics Statistics Question Bank Critical Thinking

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    The mean of the values 0, 1, 2,......,n having corresponding weight \[^{n}{{C}_{0}},{{\,}^{n}}{{C}_{1}},{{\,}^{n}}{{C}_{2}},........\,,{{\,}^{n}}{{C}_{n}}\] respectively is          [AMU 1990; CET 1998]

    A)                 \[\frac{{{2}^{n}}}{n+1}\]        

    B)                 \[\frac{{{2}^{n+1}}}{n(n+1)}\]

    C)                 \[\frac{n+1}{2}\]    

    D)                 \[\frac{n}{2}\]

    Correct Answer: D

    Solution :

                    The required mean is                                 \[\bar{x}=\frac{0.1+{{1.}^{n}}{{C}_{1}}+{{2.}^{n}}{{C}_{2}}+{{3.}^{n}}{{C}_{3}}+......+n{{.}^{n}}{{C}_{n}}}{1{{+}^{n}}{{C}_{1}}{{+}^{n}}{{C}_{2}}+....{{+}^{n}}{{C}_{n}}}\]                                    \[=\frac{\sum\limits_{r=0}^{n}{r.\,{{\,}^{n}}{{C}_{r}}}}{\sum\limits_{r=0}^{n}{^{n}{{C}_{r}}}}=\frac{\sum\limits_{r=1}^{n}{r.\frac{n}{r}\,{{\,}^{n-1}}{{C}_{r-1}}}}{\sum\limits_{r=0}^{n}{^{n}{{C}_{r}}}}\]= \[\frac{n\sum\limits_{r=1}^{n}{^{n-1}{{C}_{r-1}}}}{\sum\limits_{r=0}^{n}{^{n}{{C}_{r}}}}\]                      \[=\frac{n{{.2}^{n-1}}}{{{2}^{n}}}\] \[=\frac{n}{2}\].


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