Question

A jar of sweet contains 5 yellow sweets, 4 red sweets, 8 green sweets, 4 orange sweets and 3 white sweets. Ola chose a sweet at random, what is the possibility that she will pick either a yellow or orange sweet?

Answer 1

Answer:

9/24 or 37.5%

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Answer 2

Hi,  

first thing you must do with a  probability problem is to count how many thing you have in your universe.

Here we are dealing with sweets. So let's count  :  5 +4+8+4+3 = 24  

and there is  5 yellow  so probability to pick up a yellow is  5/24

and there is 4 orange  so probabilitu to pick up a orange is  4/24

To say  :   Ola will pick orange or  yellow  mean  if she pick either one of the two sort is good.  So you add the proba of each :   5/24 +4/24 = 9/24

and then you must reduce if you can :   9/24 = 3*3 /8*3 =  3/8

So the probability that Ola pick a  yellow or orange sweet is  3/8 = 0.375