Generate one random observation from an erlang distribution

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Obtaining uniform random numbers as instructed at the beginning of the Problems section, generate four random observations from an exponential distribution with mean = 1. Then use these four observations to generate one random observation from an Erlang distribution with mean = 4 and shape parameter k = 4.

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