grandes-ecoles 2021 Q37

grandes-ecoles · France · centrale-maths2__psi Discrete Probability Distributions Proof of Distributional Properties or Symmetry
We consider an urn containing $A$ balls of which $pA$ are white and $qA$ are black. We draw simultaneously $n$ balls from the urn. We number from 1 to $pA$ each of the white balls and, for any natural integer $i \in \llbracket 1, pA \rrbracket$, we define $$Y_i = \begin{cases} 1 & \text{if the ball numbered } i \text{ was drawn,} \\ 0 & \text{otherwise.} \end{cases}$$ For $1 \leqslant i < j \leqslant pA$, prove that the random variable $Y_i Y_j$ follows a Bernoulli distribution whose parameter we will specify.
We consider an urn containing $A$ balls of which $pA$ are white and $qA$ are black. We draw simultaneously $n$ balls from the urn. We number from 1 to $pA$ each of the white balls and, for any natural integer $i \in \llbracket 1, pA \rrbracket$, we define
$$Y_i = \begin{cases} 1 & \text{if the ball numbered } i \text{ was drawn,} \\ 0 & \text{otherwise.} \end{cases}$$
For $1 \leqslant i < j \leqslant pA$, prove that the random variable $Y_i Y_j$ follows a Bernoulli distribution whose parameter we will specify.