According to the M&Ms Web site, each package of the milk chocolate candies typically contains 14% brown, 13% red, 14% yellow, 16% green, 24% blue, and 20% orange M&Ms. You go to the store and buy a standard package. When you open it, you find that it contains 51 M&Ms, distributed as follows. Over the long run, you know that the probability of selecting a blue or an orange M&M will be 44%, because these outcomes are:
A)discrete.
B)disjoint.
C)finite.
D)None of the answer options is correct.

Question

According to the M&Ms Web site, each package of the milk chocolate candies typically contains 14% brown, 13% red, 14% yellow, 16% green, 24% blue, and 20% orange M&Ms. You go to the store and buy a standard package. When you open it, you find that it contains 51 M&Ms, distributed as follows.  Over the long run, you know that the probability of selecting a blue or an orange M&M will be 44%, because these outcomes are:
A)discrete. 
B)disjoint. 
C)finite. 
D)None of the answer options is correct.

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Disjoint events are events that cannot happen simultaneously. Since blue and orange M&Ms are two different colors, they cannot be present in the same piece of candy. Therefore, they are disjoint events, and their probabilities can be added together to get the probability of selecting either a blue or an orange M&M.

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