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A candy company claims that in a large bag (over 1,000 pieces) of Halloween candy half the candies are orange and half the candies are

A candy company claims that in a large bag (over 1,000 pieces) of

Halloween

candy half the candies are

orange

and half the candies are

black.

You pick candies at random from a bag and discover that of the first

50

you eat,

18

are

orange.

a)

If it were true that half are

orange

and half are

black,

what is the probability you would have found that at

most

18

out of

50

were

orange?

b)

Do you think that half of the candies in the bag are really

orange?

Explain.

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