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.
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There are ( 3 7 ) ways of choosing which three balls go into box A, and there are 2 4 ways of distributing the other four balls between boxes B and C. Since there are 3 7 ways of distributing the balls altogether, the desired probability is 3 7 ( 3 7 ) 2 4 = 0 . 2 5 6 0 5 8 5 2 2 7