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In a bag of candy, there are 4 tootsie rolls, 3 lollipops, 5 hershey kisses and 6 starbursts. if you select one piece of candy at random, what is the probability that it will be a lollipop?
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In a bag of candy, there are 4 tootsie rolls, 3 lollipops, 5 hershey kisses and 6 starbursts. if you select one piece of candy at random, what is the probability that it will be a lollipop?

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4 tootsie rolls, 3 lollipops, 5 hersheys kisses, 6 starbursts......for a total of 18 pieces of candy.

now...there are 3 lollipops.....and 18 total pieces of candy.....so the probability of selecting a lollipop is : 3/18 which reduces to 1/6
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