Question

A candy jar contains candies of the same size in three flavors: lime, cerry, and licorice. if the probability of randomly pulling out a lime candy is 3/8, and the probabilty of randomly pulling out cherry candy is 2/8, what is the probability of randomly pulling out a licorice flavored candy?

Answer 1

The probability for licorice candy would be 3/8. Since there is 8 candies total you would then just subtract lime and cherry out of it. So you're left with 3 licorice candies out of 8 candies total.

Answer 2

Since the total probability will be 1, then:

Pulling out a licorice = 1 - 2/8 - 3/8 = 3/8