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there are 6 flavors of candy in a bag strawberry lime lemon cherry or grape what is the probabilty of selecting blueberry

User Niti
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16.67%

This is because
1/6 = 0.166667 = 16.67%

User Gus E
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Number of strawberry = 1

Number of Lime = 1

Number of Lemon = 1

Number of Cherry = 1

Number of Blueberry = 1

Total number of candies = 1 +1 + 1 +1 +1 +1 =6

favourable outcome = 1

P(of selecting blueberry ) =
(Number of Blueberry )/(Total number of candies)

P(of selecting blueberry) =
(1)/(6)

P(of selecting blueberry) = 0.1666

P(of selecting blueberry) = 0.17


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