The popular candy Skittles comes in 5 colors. According to the Skittles website, the 5 colors are evenly distributed in the population of Skittle candies. So each color makes up 20% of the population. Suppose that we purchase a small bag of Skittles. Assume this size bag always has 40 candies. In this particular bag 10 are green. What is the probability that a randomly selected bag of this size has 10 or more green candies

27.76% probability that a randomly selected bag of this size has 10 or more green candies

Step-by-step explanation:

I am going to use the normal approximation to the binomial to solve this question.

Binomial probability distribution

Probability of exactly x sucesses on n repeated trials, with p probability.

Can be approximated to a normal distribution, using the expected value and the standard deviation.

The expected value of the binomial distribution is:

The standard deviation of the binomial distribution is:

Normal probability distribution

Problems of normally distributed samples can be solved using the z-score formula.

In a set with mean and standard deviation , the zscore of a measure X is given by:

The Z-score measures how many standard deviations the measure is from the mean. After finding the Z-score, we look at the z-score table and find the p-value associated with this z-score. This p-value is the probability that the value of the measure is smaller than X, that is, the percentile of X. Subtracting 1 by the pvalue, we get the probability that the value of the measure is greater than X.

When we are approximating a binomial distribution to a normal one, we have that , .

In this problem, we have that:

So

What is the probability that a randomly selected bag of this size has 10 or more green candies

Using continuity correction, this is , which is 1 subtracted by the pvalue of Z when X = 9.5. So

has a pvalue of 0.7224

1 - 0.7224 = 0.2776

27.76% probability that a randomly selected bag of this size has 10 or more green candies

3/4 ÷ 3/4

step-by-step explanation:

basically divide any proper fraction with itself to fit the criteria.

so if we are using 3/4, then:

3/4 ÷ 3/4 = 1

so 1 is the quotient.

and the numerators for both these fractions is 3.   and if we divide the numerators:

3 ÷ 3 = 1

we see that quotient is equal to our original quotient as well.

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