Q32 of 62 Page 1337

Bring out the fallacy, if any, in the following statement:

‘The mean of a binomial distribution is 6 and its variance is 9’


Variance can not be greater than mean as then, q wll be greater than 1, which is not possible.


As, np = 6 and npq = 9


q = 3/2 …(not possible)


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