Chance of x Red balls sharing a bucket with a Green ball

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If I have 237 buckets, and there are n green balls distributed randomly over those buckets, and I put 34 new red balls randomly in those 237 buckets, what is the formula for the probability that x green balls share a bucket with a red ball?

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