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You have a bag of different flavored candies. The probabilities of randomly selecting a particular flavor of candy are shown below:

Cherry | .245
Lime | .325
Lemon | .180
Orange | .215
Grapefruit | .035

Your buddy Earl likes the lime candies. He eats a bunch of them and hands the bag back to you. The complement of the event P(selecting a Lime candy from the bag) would:

A. become 0
B. stay the same
C. There isn't enough information to answer this question
D. increase
E. decrease

(according to a different site E. decrease isn't the answer)


Sagot :

The complement of the event P(selecting a Lime candy from the bag) would increase.

The probability of event P(selecting a Lime candy from the bag) would decrease after Earl eats a bunch of lime candies.

In essence, the complement of the event P(selecting a Lime candy from the bag), which is synonymous to the chance of not picking a Lime candy from the bag increases.

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