Question

There are an equal number of red, orange, blue, green, and purple candies in a bag of 40 candies Joey picks a candy at random

What is the probability that Joey picks a red candy?
OA

Answer 1

There are five colors, and an equal amount, so 40 divided by five is eight. there’s a chance of eight red marbles out of all of them. That would be 8/40 and simplified, 1/5