A large bag of multi-colored candy contains 400 candies. The number of red candies is 60. Find the approximate probability of getting 5 red candies in a random sample of 8 candies. Round your answer to 4 decimal places.

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A large bag of multi-colored candy contains 400 candies. The number of red candies is 60. Find the approximate probability of getting 5 red candies in a random sample of 8 candies. Round your answer to 4 decimal places.

Hint: Instead of the hypergeometric distribution, use the distribution that will give an approximate probability when n < 0.05N.

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