The probability of drawing a green candy from a jar of 20 candies is 1/4. How many yellow candies should be added to the jar in order to reduce the probability to 1/6 ?
1 Answer
Sep 15, 2016
Explanation:
As the probability of drawing a green candy from a jar of
number of green candies in the jar are
Now let us assume we add
As we desire the probability to be
and
Hence,