Question

Please help!
In a large bag of Skittles®, each of the 5 colors (red, orange, yellow, blue, green) occurs with the same probability. You reach in and select 2 candies.

Find the probability that exactly one of the candies is orange.

I'm just checking, the answer is 2/5 or 0.4? Right???

Answer 1

exactly one out of two means one orange and not orange.
orange has probability \(\frac{1}{5}\) not orange has probability \(\frac{4}{5}\)

you need to multiply these probabilities together

Answer 2

so it can be, for orange candy probability will be 1/5, while for any other candy it will be 4/5..

so the probability of event will be = 1/5 * 4/5 = 4/25 = 0.16...

i am not sure on this.. let some one confirm this..

Answer 3

@Ganpat is correct, it is \(\frac{1}{5}\times \frac{4}{5}=\frac{4}{25}\)

Answer 4

okay, thank so much! :)

Answer 5

hmmm they said the answer is 0.32