In a small bag of M&Ms, there are 8 orange candies and 4 blue candies. You select one candy, eat it, then select another.

Find P(you select first an Orange candy then a Blue candy) Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.

HELP

Question

In a small bag of M&Ms, there are 8 orange candies and 4 blue candies. You select one candy, eat it, then select another.

Find P(you select first an Orange candy then a Blue candy) Round your answer to the nearest hundredth.

HELP

deving7240 · Answer

are you trying to find what the probablity of a single color is?

heidi710 · Answer

yes the probability of the orange and the blue

deving7240 · Answer

Ok

deving7240 · Answer

8      4       32          16     8
-  x  - =     -   =       - =  -
12   11      132        66    33

deving7240 · Answer

To get this, first you need to find the probability of getting an orange over the total number of m&ms (12) which is 8 over 12.Then since you took an m&m out already, there is only 11 so you have to then find the blue over the total (11) and multiply them together.
Simplify.

heidi710 · Answer

okay thank you!