In a small bag of candy, there are 10 orange candies and 4 blue candies. You select 1 candy, eat it, and then select another. Find P (You select first an orange candy and then a blue candy).

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Braelyn Zamora

5 October, 12:12

In a small bag of candy, there are 10 orange candies and 4 blue candies. You select 1 candy, eat it, and then select another. Find P (You select first an orange candy and then a blue candy).

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Grizzly · Answer 1

P of first candy being orange = 10 / 14

P of second one being blue = 4 / 13

(since you ate an orange one, you still have 4 blue candies, but total og 13 candies.

Now multiply the two Ps. 10/14 * 4/13 = 20/91 = roughly 0.24