Question

a bag contains 6 cherry 3 orange and 2 lemon candies. You reach in and take 3 pieces of candy at random. Find the probability of all lemons

Answer 1

0.181818

Explanation:

There are total 11 candies. The possibility of combinations is 165 which is found by using computation technique 11C3. It is assumed that order does not matter. There are 3 pieces of candy are selected at random. There are 6C2 which is 15 different ways to select cherry and lemon. There are 30 ways to choose 2 cherry and a lemon combination. The probability is
`(30)/(165)` = 0.181818