You are conducting an experiment where a bucket is filled with 11 fluffy hamsters and 7 spiky sea urchins. You blindly reach into the bucket, grab an animal at random, and record which animal it was. After each trial the animal that you grabbed is removed from the bucket. What is the probability that you will grab a sea urchin on your first 3 trials? a. 4124 b. .0429 c. .0360 d. .0515

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You are conducting an experiment where a bucket is filled with 11 fluffy hamsters and 7 spiky sea
urchins. You blindly reach into the bucket, grab an animal at random, and record which animal it was.
After each trial the animal that you grabbed is removed from the bucket. What is the probability that
you will grab a sea urchin on your first 3 trials?
a. 4124
b. .0429
c. .0360
d. .0515
Transcribed Image Text:You are conducting an experiment where a bucket is filled with 11 fluffy hamsters and 7 spiky sea urchins. You blindly reach into the bucket, grab an animal at random, and record which animal it was. After each trial the animal that you grabbed is removed from the bucket. What is the probability that you will grab a sea urchin on your first 3 trials? a. 4124 b. .0429 c. .0360 d. .0515
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