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You have a bag of candy that comes in colors of red, yellow, pink, and orange. In the bag you
happen to be eating, there are 7 red, 8 yellow, 8 pink, and 7 orange.
a.
If you randomly choose candies from this bag to eat, what is the probability that the first
three pieces of candy you eat will be pink?
b.
Each time you eat 5 pieces of candy, you count the number of pink candies. Can this
situation be modeled by the binomial distribution? Explain.