You buy a bag of 8 candies, of which 3 are chocolates, but all candies look alike. You eat candies from the bag until you have eaten all three chocolates. What is the probability you will have eaten exactly 7 of the candies in the bag?

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Reed Larson

Mathematics

6 May, 17:03

You buy a bag of 8 candies, of which 3 are chocolates, but all candies look alike. You eat candies from the bag until you have eaten all three chocolates. What is the probability you will have eaten exactly 7 of the candies in the bag?

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Kelvin Williamson · Answer 1

1 out of 6 chances

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so, if there are 8 candies, and 3 of them are chocolate, then in the probability of eating 7, that's the probability 1 out of 6 because you had to of eaten 3 candies or higher. That makes it go from the probability of 1 out of 8 to the probability of 1 out of 6 because you couldn't have only eaten 1 or 2 candies.