Question

suppose you have a bag that hold 27 pieces of candy: 1 cream soda, 14 apple, and 12 root beer. you reach into the bag to pull out one piece. find the probability that the piece you pull out is not root beer flavored

Answer 1

I order to solve this you have to find out how how much root beer there is to the total amount of candy. 12/27. Then you find out what the percentage of root beer there is by dividing 12 by 27. It’ll give you a decimal point. Percentage has a maximum of 100%. And you’ll find out what percent based on this decimal. Factor it out of 1. The percentage you get is .44. By factoring out of 1 you can find out that the percentage is 44%. So the probability of finding a root beer out of all the candy is roughly 44%