It is a pretty simple question, but I wanted to know if I got it right (and I had a weird result in the end): There are 3 White balls and 1 Green ball in a urn. We take one ball from it, write down the colour then put it back with +c balls of the same colour. Now we take a second ball. $X_{i} = 1$ if the ith ball is green and $X_{i} = 0$ if it is white, for $i = 1,2$. a) What is the joint probability distribution of $X_{1}$ and $X_{2}$ b) What is the correlation between $X_{1}$ and $X_{2}$. What whappens when c goes to inf? Here's what I did: a) $P(0,0) = \frac{3}{4} * \frac{3+c}{4+c} = \frac{9+3c}{16+4c}$ $P(0,1) = \frac{3}{4} * \frac{1}{4+c} = \frac{3}{16+4c}$ $P(1,0) = \frac{1}{4} * \frac{3}{4+c} = \frac{3}{16+4c}$ $P(1,1) = \frac{1}{4} * \frac{1+c}{4+c} = \frac{1+c}{16+4c}$ b) $E[X_{1}] = E[(X_{1})^2] = 1 * \frac{1}{4} = \frac{1}{4}$ $E[X_{2}] = E[(X_{1})^2] = 1 * \frac{1+c}{4+c} + 1 * \frac{1}{4+c} = \frac{2+c}{4+c}$ (all other sum terms are 0) $E[X_{1}X_{2}] = 1*1*\frac{1+c}{4c+16}$ (all other sum terms are 0) $Var(X_{1}) = \frac{1}{4} - \frac{1}{16} = \frac{3}{16}$ $Var(X_{2}) = \frac{2+c}{4+c} - (\frac{2+c}{4+c})^2 = \frac{4+2c}{(4+c)^2}$ $Cov(X_{1},X_{2}) = \frac{1+c}{4c+16} - \frac{1}{4} * \frac{2+c}{4+c} = -1$ $Cor(X_{1},X_{2}) = \frac{-1}{\sqrt{\frac{3}{16} * \frac{4+2c}{(4+c)^2}}} = \frac{-c-16}{\sqrt{12+6c}}$ And then when c goes to inf, the correlation goes to -inf, which doesn't seem to make sense... Did I go wrong somewhere?