Question

A bowl contains candies of the same size in three flavors: orange, strawberry, and pineapple. If the probability of randomly pulling out an orange candy is 1 over 7 , and the probability of randomly pulling out a strawberry candy is 2 over 7 , what is the probability of randomly pulling out a pineapple candy?

Answer 1

I think it’s 3 over 7 I am rlly not sure if that’s right I just based it off the pattern

Answer 2

Because 7 is the “denominator” that means there are 7 total candies in the bowl.

So if you already know that you have a 1 in 7 chance of pulling a orange, and a 2 in 7 chance of pulling a strawberry, then the other 4 candies in the bowl will be pineapple.

Therefore the probability of pulling out a pineapple candy would be 4 out of 7.