Question 5 - End-of-Chapter Exercises - Chapter 7 - The Mathematics of Maybe: Introduction to Probability

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A bag has 3 candies: strawberry, lemon, and mint. One is picked at - End-of-Chapter Exercises

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Question 5 A bag has 3 candies: strawberry, lemon, and mint. One is picked at random. What is the probability of picking a strawberry candy? Now, Number of strawberry candy = 1 Total candies = 3 Thus, Probability of picking strawberry candy = (š‘š‘¢š‘šš‘š‘’š‘Ÿ š‘œš‘“ š‘ š‘”š‘Ÿš‘Žš‘š‘’š‘Ÿš‘Ÿš‘¦ š‘š‘Žš‘›š‘‘š‘–š‘’š‘ )/(š‘‡š‘œš‘”š‘Žš‘™ š‘›š‘¢š‘šš‘š‘’š‘Ÿ š‘œš‘“ š‘š‘Žš‘›š‘‘š‘–š‘’š‘ ) = šŸ/šŸ‘

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