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Question
A bag contains lemon flavoured candies only. Malini takes out one candy without looking into the bag. What is the probability that she takes out an orange flavoured candy?
Solution
- The bag contains lemon-flavoured candies only. It does not contain any orange-flavoured candies.
- This implies that every time, she will take out only lemon-flavoured candies. Therefore, the event that Malini will take out an orange-flavoured candy is an impossible one. Hence, P (an orange flavoured candy) = 0
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