General: Candy Colors M&M plain candies come in various colors.

According to the M&M/Mars Department of Consumer Affairs (link to the Mars company web site from the Brase/Brase statistics site at http://www

.cengagebrain.com, the distribution of colors for plain M&M candies is Color Purple Yellow Red Orange Green Blue Brown Percentage 20% 20% 20% 10% 10% 10% 10%

Suppose you have a large bag of plain M&M candies and you choose one candy at random. Find

(a) P(green candy or blue candy). Are these outcomes mutually exclusive?

Why?

(b) P(yellow candy or red candy). Are these outcomes mutually exclusive? Why?

(c) P(not purple candy)