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Q. In a Binomial (a, p) distribution show that σ x 2 < μ (where σ x 2 is variance and μ is mean of this distribution).
 

Let X be a binomial variate with parameters n and p. Then,Meanμ = np and Varianceσ2 = npqmean - variance = np - npq = np1-q = np2mean - variance > 0     as, nN and p > 0, so np2 > 0mean > varianceμ > σ2   

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