No links please 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). Share with your friends Share 0 Varun Rawat answered this Let X be a binomial variate with parameters n and p. Then,Meanμ = np and Varianceσ2 = npqmean - variance = np - npq = np1-q = np2⇒mean - variance > 0 as, n∈N and p > 0, so np2 > 0⇒mean > variance⇒μ > σ2 0 View Full Answer