Jasmine has a bag of sweets, which has 3 yellow sweets, 5 green sweets, 7 red sweets, 4 purple sweets and 1 black sweets. If Jasmine takes out one sweet, find the colour of the sweet which has $\frac{1}{4}$ probability.

Green

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Solution

The correct option is A Green
Let the number of color of the sweet which has $\frac{1}{4}$ probability be x.

Total number of sweets = 20

$\Rightarrow \frac{1}{4} = \frac{x}{20}$

$\Rightarrow x = 5$ So, Desired sweet = Green

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Let the number of color of the sweet which has $\frac{1}{4}$ probability be x.

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