Solution

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For each ball, the event of landing in is a Bernoulli distribution trial. Under the null hypothesis its probability is . Under the selected alternative , its probability is . The placements are independent random variables conditional on that selected index, so the count has the binomial distribution:
The second assertion concerns , rather than the unconditional mixture model .

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