SOLUTION: According to a theory in​ genetics, if tall and colorful plants are crossed with short and colorless​ plants, four types of plants will​ result: tall and​ c

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Question 1120628: According to a theory in​ genetics, if tall and colorful plants are crossed with short and colorless​ plants, four types of plants will​ result: tall and​ colorful, tall and​ colorless, short and​ colorful, and short and​ colorless, with corresponding probabilities of
five sixteenths
​,
four sixteenths
​,
one sixteenth
​,
and six sixteenths
.
In a multinomial​ experiment, if 10 plants are​ selected, find the probability that 3 will be tall and​ colorful, 2 will be tall and​ colorless, 3 will be short and​ colorful, and 2 will be short and colorless.
The probability is_______________

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The number of ways of selecting 10 plants with 3 tall and colorful, 2 tall and colorless, 3 short and colorful, and 2 short and colorless is given by the multinomial coefficient



The probability of any one of those combinations is



The overall probability of selecting that number of the different kinds of plants is the product of those two numbers, which to a few decimal places is 0.00165.

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