Question

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

Answer 1

Answer:

Probability to pick yellow or orange sweet = 3 / 8

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

Number of yellow sweet = 5

Number of red sweet = 4

Number of green sweet = 8

Number of orange sweet = 4

Number of white sweet = 3

Find:

Probability to pick yellow or orange sweet

Computation:

Total number of sweets = 24 sweets

Probability to pick yellow = 5 / 24

Probability to pick orange = 4 / 24

Probability to pick yellow or orange sweet = 5/24 + 4 / 24

Probability to pick yellow or orange sweet = 9 / 24

Probability to pick yellow or orange sweet = 3 / 8