Five individuals from an animal population thought to be near extinction in a certain region have been caught, tagged, and released to mix into the population. after they have had an opportunity to mix, a random sample of 10 of these animals is selected. let x = the number of tagged animals in the second sample. assuming there is a total of 25 animals of this type in the region, what are e(x) and var(x)?

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The hypergeometric distribution is a discrete probability distribution that its useful when we have more than two distinguishable groups in a sample and the probability mass function is given by:

Where N is the population size, M is the number of success states in the population, n is the number of draws, k is the number of observed successes  

The expected value and variance for this distribution are given by:

What is the distribution of X?  

For this case the random variable X follows a hypergometric distribution.

Compute the values for E(X) and Var(X)  

For this case n=10, M=5, N=25, so then we can replace into the formulas like this:

What is the probability that none of the animals in the second sample are tagged?  

So for this case we want this probability:

What is the probability that all of the animals in the second sample are tagged?  

So for this case we want this probability:

what is the information provided?

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