Someone hands you a box of 17 chocolate covered candies telling you that 8 are...

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Someone hands you a box of 17 chocolate covered candies telling you that 8 are vanilla creams and the rest are peanut butter You pick candies at random and discover the first 3 you eat are all vanilla Consider a result to be surprising if there is less than a 5 chance of observing it given your expectations Complete parts a through c below a If there really were 8 vanilla and 9 peanut butter candies in the box what is the probability that you would have picked 3 vanillas in a row Round to three decimal places as needed

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