1, A. You have a bag of different flavored candies. The probabilities of randoml
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1, A. You have a bag of different flavored candies. The probabilities of randomly selecting a particular flavored candy are shown in the table. The probability of selecting an orange candy OR a cherry candy is an example of:
a) ancillary events
b) independent events
c) complementary events
d) disjoint events
e) conjunctive events
1, B. Your buddy Earl likes the lime candies. He eats a bunch of them and hands the bag back to you. The complement of the event P(selecting a Lime candy from the bag) would:
a) There isn't enough information to answer this question
b) decrease
c) increase
d) stay the same
e) become 0
Flavor Probability Cherry 0.245 Lime 0.325 Lemon 0.180 Orange 0.215 Grapefruit 0.035Explanation / Answer
1)
c) complementary events
because the sum of all those probabilities need to be 1
2)
b) decrease
because he eats a bunch of lime candies, so the proportion will decrease
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