Mathematics
A bag contains lemon flavoured candies only. Malini takes out one candy without looking into the bag. What is the probability that she takes out
(i) an orange flavoured candy?
(ii) a lemon flavoured candy?
Answer
(i) Since, there are no orange candies in the bag.
∴ No. of favourable outcomes for getting orange flavoured candy = 0.
Hence, probability of taking out an orange flavoured candy = 0.
(ii) As the bag has only lemon flavoured candy, so every time she takes out only lemon flavoured candy.
∴ The event is sure event.
Hence, probability of taking out lemon flavoured candy is 1.
Related Questions
If P(E) = 0.05, what is the probability of ‘not E’?
It is given that in a group of 3 students, the probability of 2 students not having the same birthday is 0.992. What is the probability that the 2 students have the same birthday?
A bag contains 3 red balls and 5 black balls. A ball is drawn at random from the bag. What is the probability that the ball drawn is
(i) red ?
(ii) not red ?