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[doodab]

Around 0.8% of my books were written by Jeremy Clarkson. 75% of those were an unwanted christmas gift and have never been opened.

[AtW]

Send them to his home address and ask for a refund.

HTH

[TimberWolf]

You have 500 books of which 4 were written by Jeremy Clarkson, one of which was not an unwanted Christmas gift which has never been opened?

[doodab]

You have 500 books of which 4 were written by Jeremy Clarkson, one of which was not an unwanted Christmas gift which has never been opened?

Something like that.

[TimberWolf]

Next step could be to estimate out how many books you have in total based on knowing that 4 of them are Clarkson's.

Here's one method : Mark and recapture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Think there's also a way of estimating how many Clarkson's and total books based on drawing the first or second Clarkson, but forget that one now. Seem to recall that a square root was involved?

[doodab]

No need for that. I've just catalogued them all.

[minestrone]

You could put the 4 books around the others and say "around all my books are Clarkson books".

[BrilloPad]

I think I have 5 of his book. I love them all. Very funny guy and talks alot of sense. He should be prime minister.

[minestrone]

As an avid radio 3 listener James May has been on for the last week talking about music, I just had him down as an OK geezer who is on the TV but he really knows his stuff on classical music and you do not get on radio 3 unless you know a tulip load about classical music.

[mudskipper]

Around 0.8% of my books were written by Jeremy Clarkson. 75% of those were an unwanted christmas gift and have never been opened.

And the other 99.2% are by Hugh Hefner, and will no longer open because of pages stuck together.