the birthday problem with seasons.( doubt)

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the birthday problem with seasons.( doubt)

Mauli
q) for a group of 7 people , find the probability that all 4 seasons ( winter, spring, summer, fall) occur at least once each among their birthdays , assuming that all seasons are equally likely.
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Sinistral
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It can be solved using Multinomial distribution.
It was too cumbersome to write 'here 'all the possible combinations so I am attaching a JPG image. I hope the hand-writing is readable.



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Mauli
god!
thankyou so so much for these inputs sinistral.
one thing, i  had found a question set over the net and this question was there under the head of ''bayes theorem''.
if anything strikes u on that front please share it.
thanks again:)