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A curious student has a bag of multi-colored candies. He wants to know how many of each color are in the bag. He
makes the following observations
Red
Green
Yellow
Purple
Blue
14
36
7
19
3
After he counts all the colors, he eats four green candies, and puts the rest in the bag. What is the probability that
next time, he will choose a red candy?
a 0.14
c. 0.18
b. 0.17
d. 0.19
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Answer 1

Add all the candies together you’ll get 79. Then subtract 4 because he ate 4 green candies so it’s 74 candies. Since your trying to find the probability that he’ll pick a red candy you’ll get 14/74. Then simplify Nd you’ll get 0.189 round it Nd get d 0.19 as the probability

Answer 2

D, 0.19

Explanation:

So first you add up all the candies

you’ll get 79 pieces of candy

So 4 pieces of green candy

So we can just subtract 4 from 79 you’ll get 75 pieces

It still works becuase we know that 4 pieces gone are green so the other candies still have the same amount

Now there are 14 red pieces

So 14/75

Now simplify that and you’ll Get

0.18666666

Now round that, 0.19