SOLUTION: A jar on your desk contains fourteen black, nine red, twelve yellow, and two green jellybeans. You pick a jellybean without looking. Please show how you get to the answer a) How

Question 1194129: A jar on your desk contains fourteen black, nine red, twelve yellow, and two green jellybeans. You pick a jellybean without looking. Please show how you get to the answer
a) How many ways are there to pick a red jellybean from the jar?
b) How many ways are there to pick a yellow jellybean from the jar?
c) How many ways are there to pick either a red or a yellow jellybean from the jar?

Answer by ikleyn(52798) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Calculate the total jellybeans.

For each question, calculate the number of favorable jellybeans.

To answer each question, take the ratio of favorable to the total.

All your questions are of the complexity level of "how many is 2 + 2 ?",

So even a person unfamiliar with the formal definition of the probability,
can answer all these questions based on his or her common sense.

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