Let X₁, X₂, ..., Xₙ be mutually independent random variables, each of which is uniformly distributed on the integers from 1 to k. Let Y denote the minimum of the Xi's. P(Y < y) is:
a) 1 - (y/k)ⁿ
b) (y/k)ⁿ
c) 1 - (1 - y/k)ⁿ
d) (1 - y/k)ⁿ

Q&A Education