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Mr. Nguyen is about to give one of his students a piece of candy for asking a good question in class. He's going to choose the piece of candy at random out of a bag he brings to class. The following pieces of candy are in the bag: 17 apple gumballs, 3 grape gumballs, 6 apple suckers, and 11 grape suckers. What is the probability that the piece of candy Mr. Nguyen chooses is apple or is a sucker?

          Mr. Nguyen is about to give one of his students a piece of candy for asking a good question in class. He's going to choose the piece of candy at random out of a bag he brings to class. The following pieces of candy are in the bag: 17 apple gumballs, 3 grape gumballs, 6 apple suckers, and 11 grape suckers. What is the probability that the piece of candy Mr. Nguyen chooses is apple or is a sucker?
        
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Mr. Nguyen is about to give one of his students a piece of candy for asking a good question in class. He's going to choose the piece of candy at random out of a bag he brings to class. The following pieces of candy are in the bag: 17 apple gumballs, 3 grape gumballs, 6 apple suckers, and 11 grape suckers. What is the probability that the piece of candy Mr. Nguyen chooses is apple or is a sucker?

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Mr. Nguyen is about to give one of his students a piece of candy for asking a good question in class. He's going to choose the piece of candy at random out of a bag he brings to class. The following pieces of candy are in the bag: 17 apple gumballs, 3 grape gumballs, 6 apple suckers, and 11 grape suckers. What is the probability that the piece of candy Mr. Nguyen chooses is apple or is a sucker? Do not round intermediate computations, and round your answer to the nearest hundredth.
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00:03 We are given the distribution of colors of peanut m &ms or 12 % of brown, 15 % yellow, 12 red, 23 blue, 23 orange, and 15 % green.
00:17 And we're going to compute the probability that the first orange candy is the third m &m selected.
00:25 So this is a geometric distribution.
00:29 Even if we don't know that, we can kind of reason through this.
00:31 So if the first orange candy is the third one, that means the first one would be, the first candy would not be orange.
00:43 That's one minus .23.
00:46 And that's twice.
00:48 And then we get our .23.
00:51 And we do that multiplication.
00:53 And we get this.
00:54 0 .136.
00:57 Now we'll find the probability that the first orange candy is a third or the fourth.
01:03 So we know the third is this.
01:07 The fourth would be 1 minus 0 .23 to the third times .23.
01:18 Put parentheses here just to keep those separate.
01:22 And so to get this or that and there's no overlap, we can add those two together.
01:27 So we get .241.
01:31 Now we're going to compete the probability that the first orange candy is among the first three.
01:34 So somewhere in the first three.
01:36 So it's going to be, i'm going to take this, so it's .23 times one minus .2, 3.
01:46 To the second...
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