A bag contains 6 cherry, 3 orange, and 2 lemon candies. You reach in and take 3 pieces of candy at random. Find the probability.
-All orange
A) .0182
B) .7272
C) .0011
D) .0061

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The probability of drawing 3 orange candies is calculated by dividing the number of ways to choose 3 orange candies by the total number of ways to choose any 3 candies. There are 3 orange candies, so the number of ways to choose 3 of them is 1 (since 3C3 = 1). The total number of ways to choose any 3 candies from 11 is 165 (since 11C3 = 165). Therefore, the probability is 1/165, which is approximately 0.0061.

A Bag Contains 6 Cherry, 3 Orange, and 2 Lemon