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suz623
Mar 25, 2011, 12:23 AM
In a bag there are 13 red candies, 13 green candies 13 yellow candies and 13 blue candies. If I pick 1 candy from the bag what is the probability that it will not be blue?

Curlyben
Mar 25, 2011, 12:52 AM
How many blue candles ?
How many in total?

So it's then Blue/Total

jcaron2
Mar 25, 2011, 10:10 AM
To calculate the probability of a certain event (picking a non-blue candy in this case), you simply take the number possible positive outcomes (in this case, the total number of non-blue candies in the bag) divided by the total number of outcomes (in this case, the total number of candies in the bag, regardless of color).

So how many non-blue candies are in the bag? How many candies total are in the bag? What's the first answer divided by the second answer?

jcaron2
Mar 25, 2011, 10:12 AM
Right, except that if you read carefully, you'll see it asked about the probability that it will NOT be blue. So it's actually non-blue/total.