Question

MM plain candies come in various colors. According to the MM/Mars Department of Consumer Affairs, the distribution of colors for plain MM candies is:
Colors-Purple,Yellow,Red,Orange,Green,Blue,Brown

Percentage-20%,20%,20%,10%,10%,10%,10%.

Suppose you have a large bag of plain MM candies and you take one candy at random. Find the P(purple candy or orange candy)

a. 10%
b. 20%
c. 30%
d. 40%

Answer 1

There are some questions that accompany this one.

Answer 2

Using the information from the question, are the outcomes mutually exclusive? Why or why not?

a. yes, they have the same probability
b. no, they have the same probability
c. yes, you are only drawing one MM so orange or purple cannot occur at the same time.
d. no, you are only drawing one MM so orange or purple cannot occur at the same time.

Answer 3

Using the information from the problem, what is P(not blue candy)?

a. 20%
b. 10%
c. 90%
d. 80%

Answer 4

the two events "purple" and "orange" are mutually exclusive, so we can use this formula
P(purple candy or orange candy) = P(purple) + P(orange)


P(purple candy or orange candy) = P(purple) + P(orange)
P(purple candy or orange candy) = (20%) + (10%)
P(purple candy or orange candy) = 30%

Answer 5

they are mutually exclusive because you can only pick one color at a time. In that case, you can only pick purple or orange. But not both at the same time.

Answer 6

Yeah, that makes sense.

Answer 7

what is P(not blue) equal to?

Answer 8

10%?

Answer 9

that's P(blue)

Answer 10

what's the probability of not getting blue

Answer 11

oh, sorry :p 90%

Answer 12

correct

Answer 13

Thanks

Answer 14

np