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13.7 Exercise 161

Avg difficulty 2.5

A bowl of candy holds 16 peppermint, 14 butterscotch, and 10 strawberry flavored candies. Suppose a person grabs a handful of 7 candies. What is the percent chance that exactly 3 are butterscotch? (Show calculations and round to the nearest tenth of a percent.)

OpenStax Algebra and Trigonometry 2e, 13.7 Probability, exercise 161

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