SOLUTION: According to Masterfoods, the company that manufactures M&M's, 12% of peanut M&M's are brown, 15% are yellow, 12% are red, 23% are blue, 23% are orange and 15% are green.
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Question 1182297: According to Masterfoods, the company that manufactures M&M's, 12% of peanut M&M's are brown, 15% are yellow, 12% are red, 23% are blue, 23% are orange and 15% are green.
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a. Compute the probability that a randomly selected peanut M&M is not yellow.
b. A randomly selected peanut M&M is green or brown.
c. That two randomly selected peanut M&M's are both brown.
d. If you randomly select three peanut M&M's, what is the probability that none are brown.
e. If you randomly select three peanut M&M's, what is the probability that at least one of them is brown. Answer by ikleyn(52799) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website! .
(a) add everything except yellow.
(b) add green and brown.
(c) 0.12 * 0.12 = 0.0144 = 1.44%.
(d) (1-0.12)*(1-0.12)*(1-0.12) = use your calculator.
(e) 1 - (1-0.12)*(1-0.12)*(1-0.12) = use your calculator.