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someone hands you a box of 24 chocolate covered candies, telling you that 14 are vanilla creams and the rest are peanut butter. you pick candies at random and discover the first 4 you eat are all vanilla consider result to be surprising if there is less than a 5% chance of observing it given your expectations. (a) If there really were 14 vanilla and 10 peanut butter candies in the box what is the probability that you would have picked 4 vanilla's in a row?

Name: someone hands you a box of 24 chocolate covered candies telling you that 14 are vanilla creams and the rest are peanut butter you pick candies at random and discover the first 4 you eat are 95948
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Duration: 1 min 48 s
Channel: Tsungirirai Musekiwa
Description: someone hands you a box of 24 chocolate covered candies telling you that 14 are vanilla creams and the rest are peanut butter you pick candies at random and discover the first 4 you eat are 95948

          someone hands you a box of 24 chocolate covered candies, telling you that 14 are vanilla creams and the rest are peanut butter. you pick candies at random and discover the first 4 you eat are all vanilla consider  result to be surprising if there is less than  a 5% chance of observing it given your expectations.
(a) If there really were 14 vanilla and 10 peanut butter candies in the box what is the probability that you would have picked 4 vanilla's in a row?

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Elementary Statistics a Step by Step Approach

Allan G. Bluman 9th Edition

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Solved by Expert Tsungirirai Musekiwa

03/31/2022

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After picking one vanilla candy, there are now 13 vanilla candies left out of a total of 23. So, the probability of picking a vanilla candy on the second try is 13/23. Similarly, the probability of picking a vanilla candy on the third try is 12/22, and on the Show more…

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someone hands you a box of 24 chocolate covered candies, telling you that 14 are vanilla creams and the rest are peanut butter. you pick candies at random and discover the first 4 you eat are all vanilla consider result to be surprising if there is less than a 5% chance of observing it given your expectations. (a) If there really were 14 vanilla and 10 peanut butter candies in the box what is the probability that you would have picked 4 vanilla's in a row?