A probability problem by Mayank Raj

7 different balls are to be placed in three different boxes A, B, C. Find the probability that the first box will contain exactly 3 balls.


The answer is 0.256.

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1 solution

Mark Hennings
Sep 13, 2016

There are ( 7 3 ) \binom{7}{3} ways of choosing which three balls go into box A, and there are 2 4 2^4 ways of distributing the other four balls between boxes B and C. Since there are 3 7 3^7 ways of distributing the balls altogether, the desired probability is ( 7 3 ) 2 4 3 7 = 0.2560585227 \frac{\binom{7}{3} 2^4}{3^7} \; = \; \boxed{0.2560585227}

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