You choose t candies simultaneously and uniformly at random from a collection that initially contains k candies, of which c are chocolate and the rest are strawberry. What is the expected number of strawberry candies chosen?

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You choose t candies simultaneously and uniformly at random from a collection that initially contains k candies, of which c are chocolate and the rest are strawberry. What is the expected number of strawberry candies chosen?

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