Question

A bag contains lemon flavoured candies only. Malini takes out onecandy without looking into the bag. What is the probability that shetakes out

(i) an orange flavoured candy?

(ii) a lemon flavoured candy?

Answer 1

(i) The bag contains lemon flavoured candies only. It does notcontain any orange flavoured candies. This implies that every time,she will take out only lemon flavoured candies. Therefore, event thatMalini will take out an orange flavoured candy is an impossibleevent.

Hence, P (an orange flavoured candy) = 0

(ii)As the bag has lemon flavoured candies, Malini will take outonly lemon flavoured candies. Therefore, event that Malini will takeout a lemon flavoured candy is a sure event.

P (a lemon flavoured candy) = 1