Question

A bag of candy contains 50 pieces of candy. The flavors are orange, strawberry, apple and

Answer 1

Answer:

15

Step-by-step explanation:

Let the probability of picking an orange = P(O), and the probability of picking a strawberry = P(S),

Based on the question, he picked an orange first and the probability of picking that is

P(O) = 12/50

Then he picked a strawberry on the second pick, the probability of picking the strawberry is P(S) and we'll find that later.

The probability of picking orange then strawberry with replacement is

P(O) × P(S) = 9/125

Substitute the P(O)=12/50,

12/50 × P(S) = 9/125

P(S) = 3/10

Then by finding the number of strawberry candies, we'll just have to multiply P(S) with the total number of candies, i.e.

Number of strawberry candy

= 3/10 × 50

= 15