A bag contains lemon flavoured candies only. Malini takes out one candy without looking into the bag. What is the probability that she takes out?
– An orange flavoured candy?
– A lemon flavoured candy?
This questions is taken from chapter 15 Probability class 12 Maths.
Chapter 15.1
Question 6
Page no. 308
-The bag contains lemon flavoured candies only. It does not contain any orange flavoured candies. This implies that every time, she will take out only lemon flavoured candies. Therefore, event that Malini will take out an orange flavoured candy is an impossible event.
Hence, P (an orange flavoured candy) = 0
-As the bag has lemon flavored candies, Malini will take out only lemon-flavored candies. Therefore, event that Malini will take out a lemon-flavored candy is a sure event.
P (a lemon-flavored candy) = 1
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