In Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather, at the wedding reception for his daughter Constanzia, Don Vito Corleone

Question:

In Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather, at the wedding reception for his daughter Constanzia, Don Vito Corleone discusses with his godson Johnny Fontane how he will deal with the movie mogul Jack Woltz. And in this context he speaks the famous line
"I'll make him an offer he can't refuse."
If we let the random variable X count the number of letters and apostrophes in a randomly selected word (from the above quotation) and we assume that each of the eight words has the same probability of being selected, determine
(a) the probability for X
(b) E(X)
(c) Var(X).
Distribution
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