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A bag contains orange flavoured candies only. Rahi takes out one candy without looking into the bag. What is the probability that she takes out (i) the orange flavoured candy? (ii) a lemon flavoured candy?

Let the total number of orange candies in the bag be T.

As the bags contain only orange flavoured candies so the total number of candies in the bag


= T


Let the event that an orange candy is taken out be O.


Number of favourable outcomes of the event O = T


Also, total number of favourable outcomes = T


(i) Probability that the orange flavoured candy is taken out = Probability of event occurring O = P(O)


P(O) = = 1


(ii) Probability that a lemon flavoured candy is taken out = Probability that an orange flavoured candy is not taken out = P(O’)


P(O’) = 1 – P(O) = 1 – 1 = 0


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