Question

Jean bought a bag of candy that contained red candies, green candies, and brown candies. Some candies are marked with a smile and others are not marked. The probabilities are displayed in the table below: Red Green Brown Smile 0.10 0.30 0.10 No smile 0.20 0.15 0.15 If a random candy is chosen from this bag, what is the probability that the candy was red or had no smile?

Answer 1

@lacrosseplayer22

Answer 2

@Cosmichaotic could u help?

Answer 3

Not sure on this one.. I'm horrible with statistics and probabilities

Answer 4

@Brainybeauty @Kainui @anyoneelse plz help chris

Answer 5

prob. of getting red candies = 0.10
prob. of getting candies with no smile = 0.20 + 0.15 + 0.15 = 0.5
Prob. of getting red candies + prob. of getting candies with no smile = 0.5 + 0.1 =0.6
Your answer is 0.6

Answer 6

I imagined jellybeans while solving the answer though
I like them more lol

Answer 7

But don't worry the answer is right

Answer 8

@chris!

Answer 9

Ugh....thanks so much @Brainybeauty..... This problem still doesnt make sense to me. Like, why on earth does it say *or* instead of *and*?!
It must be a glitch or typo lol? :P
Anyway, just took the test, you were correct!!