SOLUTION: Belly Jellies is one of Canada's leading producers of Jelly Beans. They sell factory seconds, or slightly misshapen jelly beans in common bags. You ordered a bag of beans, and fo
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Question 942670: Belly Jellies is one of Canada's leading producers of Jelly Beans. They sell factory seconds, or slightly misshapen jelly beans in common bags. You ordered a bag of beans, and found that there were 38 red beans, 32 blue beans, 25 purple beans, 25 orange beans, 58 green beans and 63 yellow beans.
a) What is the probability that after pulling out 4 beans, they are all green or yellow? (Answer to 2 decimal places)
Answer by mathmate(429) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Given:
A batch of jelly beans,
38 red(R), 32 blue(B), 25 purple(P), 25 orange(O), 58 green(G) and 63 yellow(Y).
Find:
probability of randomly picking 4 beans, all of which are either green or yellow.
Solution:
total number of beans =
total number of beans either yellow or green =
Probability of picking 4 yellow or green
=
Answer: probability of picking 4 beans either yellow or green is 0.23 (to two decimal places).
number of bean
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