Question

a bag contains 6 cherry, 3 orange, and 2 lemon candies. you reach in and take 3 pieces of candy at random. find the probability that you have at least 1 lemon candy

Answer 1

Take the number of lemon candies in the bag and divide it by the total number of candies there are. 

The total number of candies: 6 cherry + 3 orange + 2 lemon = 11 candies
The number of lemon candies: 2 

The probability is 2/11. You can actually divide it and then figure out the decimal value or if you want to the percentage then you can just multiply the decimal value by 100. 

Answer 2

There are 11 C 3 = 165 different ways to select 3 candies (where order doesn't matter)