According to Masterfoods, the company that manufactures M&M’s, 13% of peanut M&M’s are brown, 19% are yellow, 15% are red, 6% are blue, 8% are orange and 39% are green. Write your answer as a percent. Compute the probability that a randomly selected peanut M&M is not red.  %% Compute the probability that a randomly selected peanut M&M is blue or green.  %%

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According to Masterfoods, the company that manufactures M&M’s, 13% of peanut M&M’s are brown, 19% are yellow, 15% are red, 6% are blue, 8% are orange and 39% are green. Write your answer as a percent.

Compute the probability that a randomly selected peanut M&M is not red.

 %%

Compute the probability that a randomly selected peanut M&M is blue or green.

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Probability quantifies the chances of the happening of an event. The probability values always lie in the range of 0 to 1.

An event is a subset of the sample space. A sample space consists the set of all possible outcomes, and the probability of sample space is 1.

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