Question

A factory produces 80,000 candies each day.They produce equal quantity of four flavors:cherry,lemon,orange and strawberry. The candies are mix together during packaging. What is the probability of selecting orange.

Answer 1

1 /4

Explanation:

Total number of candies produced per day = 80,000

Number of flavors made = 4

Since the number of each flavor produced are equal ;

Number of each flavor produced :

80000 /4 = 20000

Probability of selecting orange flavor :

Number of orange flavor / total candies produced

= 20000 / 80000

= 1/4