(1) What is the probability that exactly 6 of the characters are digits? (2) What is the expected number of digits in a sequence? (3) What is the variance of the number of digits in a sequence?

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Chapter10: Sequences, Series, And Probability
Section10.8: Probability
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The exam will consist of a 10-character sequence which students will have to write in stats class. They will have a machine select each character of the sequence independently and uniformly at random from {a, b, . . . , z}∪{A, B, . . . , Z}∪{0, 1, . . . , 9} right before the exam:

(1) What is the probability that exactly 6 of the characters are digits?

(2) What is the expected number of digits in a sequence?

(3) What is the variance of the number of digits in a sequence?

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