Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
13th Edition
ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 3.1, Problem 3.11ACB
Colors of M&M’s candies. When they were first produced in 1940, M&M’s Plain Chocolate Candies came in only a brown color. Today, M&M's in standard bags come in six colors: brown, yellow, red, blue, orange, and green. According to Mars Corporation, today 24% of all M&M's produced are blue, 20% are orange, 16% are green, 14% are yellow, 13% are brown, and 13% are red. Suppose you purchase a randomly selected bag of M&M's Plain Chocolate Candies and randomly select one of the M&M’s from the bag. The color of the selected M&M is of interest.
- a. Identify the outcomes (sample points) of this experiment.
- b. Assign reasonable probabilities to the outcomes, part a.
- c. What is the
probability that the selected M&M is brown (the original color)? - d. In 1960, the colors red, green, and yellow were added to brown M&Ms. What is the probability that the selected M&M is either red, green, or yellow?
- e. In 1995, based on voting by American consumers, the color blue was added to the M&M mix. What is the probability that the selected M&M is not blue?
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Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
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