According to a theory inâ genetics, if tall and colorful plants are crossed with short and colorlessâ plants, four types of plants willâ result: tall andâ colorful, tall andâ colorless, short andâ colorful, and short andâ colorless, with corresponding probabilities of five sixteenths 5 16â, four sixteenths 4 16â, one sixteenth 1 16â, and six sixteenths 6 16. in a multinomialâ experiment, if 10 plants areâ selected, find the probability that 4 will be tall andâ colorful, 3 will be tall andâ colorless, 1 will be short andâ colorful, and 2 will be short and colorless.