. A college library has five copies of a certain text on reserve. Two copies (1 and 2) are first
printings, and the other three (3, 4, and 5) are second printings. A student examines these books in
random order, stopping only when a second printing has been selected. One possible outcome is
5, and another is 213.
(a) List the outcomes in S.
(b) Let A denote the event that exactly one book must be examined. What outcomes are in A?
(c) Let B be the event that book 5 is the one selected. What outcomes are in B?
(d) Let C be the event that book 1 is not examined. What outcomes are in C?
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