Rohan, the bookworm plans on reading 8 books by next week. But he only reads novels,poetry, short stories or science fiction. Interestingly he says, "My love for novels is twicethe love for the rest altogether ". He also claims, "Love for short stories = 3 x Love forscience fiction = 3 x Love for poetry". Taking these into account, determine theprobability that he reads 4 novels, 3 poetry and 1 short story or science fiction?

Given: Let N denote novels, P denote poetry, S denote short stories and F denote science fiction. P…

Answered: Rohan, the bookworm plans on reading 8…

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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