A box of chocolates contains 39 chocolates of 3 different flavours: 13 dark, 17 milk and 9 white. You randomly pick 9 chocolates. Find the probability that: (a) 8 chocolates are dark, 1 are milk and 0 are white. (b) you get only dark chocolates (c) you get only chocolates of the same kind (d) you get at least one chocolate of each kind. Write the results in fractional form.

A box of chocolates contains 39 chocolates of 3 different flavours: 13 dark, 17 milk and 9 white. You randomly pick 9 chocolates. Find the probability that: (a) 8 chocolates are dark, 1 are milk and 0 are white. (b) you get only dark chocolates (c) you get only chocolates of the same kind (d) you get at least one chocolate of each kind. Write the results in fractional form.

A First Course in Probability (10th Edition)

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A box of chocolates contains 39 chocolates of 3 different flavours: 13 dark, 17 milk and 9 white.

You randomly pick 9 chocolates.

Find the probability that:

(a) 8 chocolates are dark, 1 are milk and 0 are white.

(b) you get only dark chocolates

(c) you get only chocolates of the same kind

(d) you get at least one chocolate of each kind.

Write the results in fractional form.

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