A bag contains lemon flavoured candies only. Malini takes out one candy without looking into the bag. What is the probability that she takes out.

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asked Feb 9, 2018 in Mathematics by Kundan kumar (49,132 points) 34 381 1018

A bag contains lemon flavoured candies only. Malini takes out one candy without looking into the bag. What is the probability that she takes out
(i) an orange flavoured candy?
(iii) a lemon flavoured candy?

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answered Feb 9, 2018 by Vikash Kumar (144,729 points) 8 11 21

(i)  As the bag contains only lemon flavored candies. So, the event related to the experiment of taking out an orange flavored candy is an impossible event. So, its probability is 0.
(ii) As the bag contains only lemon flavored candies. So, the event related to the experiment of taking out lemon flavored candies is 
certain event. So, its probability is 1.

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