Question

A bowl contains candies of the same size in three flavors: orange, strawberry, and pineapple. If the probability of randomly pulling out an orange candy is fraction 2 over 8, and the probability of randomly pulling out a strawberry candy is fraction 3 over 8, what is the probability of randomly pulling out a pineapple candy?

fraction 3 over 8
fraction 4 over 8
fraction 5 over 8
fraction 6 over 8

Answer 1

I say its the first one

Answer 2

ye, but do you know why?

Answer 3

Can you give an explanation?

Answer 4

kk

Answer 5

so, you see that there are 3 flavors, orange, strawberry, pineapple
orange has a 2/8 probability of getting pulled
strawberry has 3/8
you see that they're both _/8, so there must be 8 in all, which means that there are 2 orange candies, 3 strawberry, and x pineapple
so, just subtract 3 and 2 from 8, which is 3

Answer 6

Thank you. thats a great explanation.

Answer 7

yw~

Answer 8

so smart ~

Answer 9

@AZ

Answer 10

\(\color{#0cbb34}{\text{Originally Posted by}}\) @snowflake0531
so, you see that there are 3 flavors, orange, strawberry, pineapple
orange has a 2/8 probability of getting pulled
strawberry has 3/8
you see that they're both _/8, so there must be 8 in all, which means that there are 2 orange candies, 3 strawberry, and x pineapple
so, just subtract 3 and 2 from 8, which is 3
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technically, it doesn't mean that there must be 8, it could be some multiple of it