Question

The probability of drawing a red candy at random from a bag of 25 candies is 2/5.

After 5 red candies are removed from the bag, what is the probability of randomly drawing a red candy from the bag?
Please include an explanation!

Answer 1

1/4

Explanation:

Probability of red * number of candies

2/5 * 25 = 10

There are 10 red candies

25-10 = 15

There are 15 other candies

Remove 5 red

10-5 = 5 red candies

Now we have 5 red candies and 15 other candies= 20 candies

P(red) = red/total = 5/20 = 1/4